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Immersion Education in Ireland: A Critical Review of Macnamara's Findings. Reply to Dr. Cummins. Reply to the Reply. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 13.
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Cummins, James; Macnamara, John – 1977
The present paper questions the validity of Macnamara's (1966) finding that teaching arithmetic through a bilingual's weaker language leads to retardation in problem arithmetic. By comparing the performance of immersion pupils on an Irish (as a second language) version of the problem arithmetic test with the performance of non-immersion pupils on…
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