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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Al-Azami, Salman – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
The paper discusses sequential language acquisition of the researcher's daughter Safa who transformed from a monolingual Bengali speaker to an almost monolingual English speaker in a few months after moving to the UK. Safa was born in Bangladesh and was a monolingual Bengali speaker until she was three years and nine months when the family…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Bilingualism
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Al-Azami, Salman; Kenner, Charmian; Ruby, Mahera; Gregory, Eve – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
This paper examines how transliteration can be used as a bridge to learning for children who are studying more than one script. The focus is on second and third generation British Bangladeshi children aged 7-11, attending London primary schools and learning to write in Bengali at community-run after-school classes. An action research project…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Action Research, English (Second Language), Indo European Languages