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‘You’re looking at this different language and it freezes you out straight away’: identifying challenges to parental involvement among immersion parents

Lauren Kavanagh School of Psychology, University College, Dublin, Ireland
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Tina M. Hickey School of Psychology, University College, Dublin, Ireland
Pages 432-450 | Received 30 Dec 2011, Accepted 13 Jul 2012, Published online: 21 Aug 2012

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Aisling Ní Dhiorbháin, Sinéad Nic Aindriú, Lorraine Connaughton-Crean & Pádraig Ó Duibhir. (2023) It’s more the invisible benefits – multilingual parents’ experiences of immersion education and their reasons for choosing immersion. Language and Education 0:0, pages 1-20.
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