Uniqueness and Overlap: Characteristics and Longitudinal Correlates of Native Chinese Children's Writing in English

Juan Zhang1, Catherine McBride-Chang1, Richard K Wagner1

  • 1University of Macau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Florida State University.

Bilingualism (Cambridge, England)
|March 3, 2015
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