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Publication details [#51541]

McNaughton, Stuart, Meaola Toloa and Mei Lai. 2009. Biliteracy and language development in Samoan bilingual classrooms: the effects of increasing English reading comprehension. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12 (5) : 513–531.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | language of instruction | reading comprehension | reading, L1-acquisition of | reading, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

English | Samoan

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper addresses a special intervention in Samoan bilingual classrooms for 9 to13 year old Samoan children, designed for increasing English as a second language reading comprehension. The significant positive link between second and first language reading comprehension, suggests a possible transfer from second into first language reading comprehension, apparently due to particular instructional aspects.