Moving Cross-Language Transfer from Hypothesis to Causal Evidence: Effects of First-Language reading Skills on Second-Language reading Development in Ghana
American Educational Research Journal
Published online on February 20, 2026
Abstract
American Educational Research Journal, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 544-574, June 2026.
In multilingual countries, debates about language policy in education persist. Many countries adopt a transitional bilingual approach in which children are taught to read in their first language (L1) as a subject before instruction shifts to an official ...
In multilingual countries, debates about language policy in education persist. Many countries adopt a transitional bilingual approach in which children are taught to read in their first language (L1) as a subject before instruction shifts to an official ...