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Magiste, Edith – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
A cross-section method was used to study the developmental changes in elementary decoding and encoding processes of 163 Swedish-German bilingual students, whose length of residence in Sweden varied. It was demonstrated that decoding in two languages, expressed in terms of reaction time, develops faster than encoding. (SW)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Decoding (Reading)
