Exploring the Relationship between Native Language Skills and Foreign Language Learning in Children with Developmental Language Disorders.
Learning English as a foreign language (FL) is mandatory for children with developmental language disorders (DLD) in elementary education in the Netherlands. Because of their difficulties in acquiring their first language, learning an FL at school can be challenging. To date, almost no literature on...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 33; no. 7; pp. 641 - 654 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2019
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