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Publication details [#36407]

Wagner, Daniel A., Jennifer E. Spratt and Abdelkader Ezzaki. 1989. Does learning to read in a second language always put the child at a disadvantage? Some counterevidence from Morocco. Applied Psycholinguistics 10 (1) : 31–48.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language proficiency | language use | reading | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Arabic, Moroccan | Berber | French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0142-7164

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper reports on the literacy instruction of Moroccan Arabic and Berber children in Arabic and in French in a rural Moroccan town, arguing that children need not necessarily be taught in their mother tongue to be able to achieve the literacy norms of the main language group.