Language and the Learning Crisis: Evidence of Transfer Threshold Mechanisms in Multilingual Reading in South India.

This paper provides evidence for a non-linear relationship between local language and English reading scores in multilingual South India. The mechanism suggests that being taught English prematurely may lead to struggles in English literacy acquisition; whereas being taught English after achieving a...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Development Studies Vol. 55; no. 11; pp. 2287 - 2306
Autores principales:	Nakamura, Pooja Reddy, de Hoop, Thomas, Holla, Chinmaya Udayakumar
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2019
Materias:	India School enrollment Regression analysis South Asians English language Data analysis
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