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The Canadian Bilingual Immersion Debate

A Synthesis of Research Findings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Virginia P. Collier
Virginia P. Collier
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George Mason University
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 87 - 97
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