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Direct linkBialystok, Ellen; Luk, Gigi; Kwan, Ernest – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2005
Four groups of children in first grade were compared on early literacy tasks. Children in three of the groups were bilingual, each group representing a different combination of language and writing system, and children in the fourth group were monolingual speakers of English. All the bilingual children used both languages daily and were learning…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Written Language, Phonemes, Reading Skills
