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Berthele, Raphael; Vanhove, Jan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This article reports on an investigation into the bilingual development of literacy skills in Portuguese heritage language speakers in Switzerland in which we sought to put Cummins' linguistic interdependence hypothesis to the test. Three predictions were derived from this hypothesis: (1) Literacy skill levels in one of the bilinguals' languages…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Portuguese, French
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Lambelet, Amelia; Mauron, Pierre-Yves – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
In this article, we present an analysis of individual factors that influence how well a person can read and understand a text in an unfamiliar, but closely related language--the basis of the so-called teaching of intercomprehension. Our work analyzes these relations from two normally separate perspectives. The first perspective focuses on how…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Background, Personality Traits, Psychometrics