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Publication details [#56861]

Negro, Isabelle and Sophie Genelot. 2012. The role of language skills in learning to read: The case of bilingualism in French overseas departments. Applied Psycholinguistics 33 (2) : 799–828.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | creole | language proficiency | reading, L2-acquisition of | written language

Language as a subject

Creole | French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses how French-Creole bilingualism in French overseas departments and early exposure to a written code add to the process of bilingual reading acquisition.