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Article published In: Cross-linguistic transfer in reading in multilingual contexts – recent research trends
Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz
[Written Language & Literacy 17:1] 2014
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Introduction

The cross-language transfer journey – a guide to the perplexed

Published online: 11 April 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.17.1.01gev
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