Essay: Learning a Second Language

by: Ellen Bialystok, York University

What challenges face students who are learning a second language at the same time as they are learning science? This essay considers some of the difficulties associated with learning to speak, read, and write in a second language. Although the principles of language learning discussed here can be generalized across languages and contexts, this essay considers situations in which English is both the language of instruction and the language being learned.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2008Stock # PB218X_13

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