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Publication details [#65945]

Ganuza, Natalia and Christina Hedman. 2019. The Impact of Mother Tongue Instruction on the Development of Biliteracy: Evidence from Somali–Swedish Bilinguals. Applied Linguistics 40 (1) : 108–131.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
age | bilingualism | foreign language proficiency | language of instruction | language proficiency | language use | lexicon | literacy | reading | school | setting
Language as a subject
Somali | Swedish
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal WWW
http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This inquiry states that mother tongue instruction (MTI) paticipation affects the biliteracy ability of young bilinguals, using examples from Somali–Swedish bilinguals and Somali MTI in a Swedish school setting.