Publications

Publication details [#41433]

Gibbons, John and Elizabeth Lascar. 1998. Operationalising Academic Language Proficiency in Bilingualism Research. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 19 (1) : 40–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | bilingualism | language proficiency | minority language

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines the development of academic language proficiency in minority-language children. It involves a study of Spanish-English biliteracy in Australia.