Publications

Publication details [#41613]

Davies, Alan and Catherine Elder. 1998. Performance on ESL Examinations: Is There a Language Distance Effect? Language & Education 12 (1) : 1–17.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | language distance | language proficiency | literacy | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article examines the influence of language distance on the English language literacy attainment of non-English-speaking background students in an Australian school.