When Language Anxiety and Selective Mutism Meet in the Bilingual Child: Interventions from Positive Psychology

Abstract: Selective mutism is more common than initially thought and afflicts immigrant language minority children at approximately three times the rate of monolinguals (Toppelberg, Tabors, Coggins, Lum, & Burgers, 2005). Children who have developmental language and/or articulation problems and...

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Main Authors: Lindsey Leacox, Margarita V. Meza, Tammy S. Gregersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Silesia Press 2016-08-01
Series:Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
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Online Access:https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/TAPSLA/article/view/4784