Home-based practices in bilingual children's transition to literacy

Necla Işıkdoğan Uğurlu1, Hatice Nilay Kayhan2, Sakine Hakkoymaz3

  • 1Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Department of Special Education, Faculty of Education, Zonguldak, Turkey.

Acta Psychologica
|September 30, 2026
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