Additional Contributors
Shkandrij, Myroslav, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Manitoba
Publisher
Project Innovation
Copyright
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Subject
Immigrant children; Bilingualism; Education, Bilingual; Language acquisition; Cognition in children; Cognition and culture; Acculturation; Symbolism (Psychology) in children;
Description
Explores the relationship between language acquistion and the construction of a symbolic world in bilingual, immigrant children and how this affects literacy and cognitive development in these children.
Source
Krystyna Nowak-Fabrykowski and Miroslav Shkandrij. "The Symbolic World of the Bilingual Child: Digressions on Language Acquisition, Culture and the Process of Thinking" in Journal of Instructional Psychology. 31:4, 284-292