Literacy Attainment in a Second Language Submersion Context.

Aarts, Rian; Verhoeven, Ludo

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ERIC Number: EJ595130

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Publication Date: 1999

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Literacy Attainment in a Second Language Submersion Context.

Aarts, Rian; Verhoeven, Ludo

Applied Psycholinguistics, v20 n3 p377-93 Sep 1999

Describes the first- and second-language literacy levels of a sample of Turkish children living in the Netherlands and identifies factors related to individual variation in literacy performance. Measures of school literacy were taken in both Turkish and Dutch. Results indicated that these children attained lower levels of literacy than did their monolingual peers. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Dutch, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Language Proficiency, Literacy, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning, Student Evaluation, Testing, Turkish, Uncommonly Taught Languages

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands

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