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| NABE: The Journal for the… | 1 |
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Peer reviewedCummins, Jim – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1980
Elaborates on cognitive/academic language proficiency and basic interpersonal communicative skills. Discusses assumptions regarding bilingual program exit and entry fallacies and implications for U.S. bilingual education. Argues that failure to adequately conceptualize the construes of language proficiency and its cross-language dimensions causes…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition


