Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition

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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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Main Authors:	Chiswick, B., Lee, Y., Miller, Paul
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Springer 2005
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20617

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