Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition
Studies of immigrants' destination language acquisition to date have focused on the individual. In contrast, this paper is concerned with the relationships among family members in the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is...
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| author | Chiswick, B. Lee, Y. Miller, Paul |
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| description | Studies of immigrants' destination language acquisition to date have focused on the individual. In contrast, this paper is concerned with the relationships among family members in the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their mother's language proficiency, but no effect on their father's. There is a substantial positive correlation between the language skills of spouses. This is due to the correlation between spouses in both the measured and the unmeasured determinants of destination language skills, even when country of origin fixed effects are held constant. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-206172018-03-29T09:06:33Z Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition Chiswick, B. Lee, Y. Miller, Paul Studies of immigrants' destination language acquisition to date have focused on the individual. In contrast, this paper is concerned with the relationships among family members in the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their mother's language proficiency, but no effect on their father's. There is a substantial positive correlation between the language skills of spouses. This is due to the correlation between spouses in both the measured and the unmeasured determinants of destination language skills, even when country of origin fixed effects are held constant. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20617 10.1007/s00148-005-0008-0 Springer restricted |
| spellingShingle | Chiswick, B. Lee, Y. Miller, Paul Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition |
| title | Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition |
| title_full | Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition |
| title_fullStr | Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition |
| title_short | Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition |
| title_sort | family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20617 |