Arabic as a heritage language: A scoping review

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2020, Pages 599-615

  Visonà, Mark Winston ^a   Plonsky, Luke ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Heritage language acquisition; research synthesis; scoping review

Indexed keywords

EID: 85085579945     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006919849110     Document Type: Article

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