The New Immigrant and Language - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration (Hardcover)

Contents:
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Valdes, G. 'The World Outside and Inside Schools: Language and Immigrant Children.' Educational Research 27 (1998).

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Portes, A. and Hao, L. 'English First or English Only? Bilingualism and Loss of Language in the Second Generation.' Sociology of Education 71 (1998).

Pease-Alvarez, L. and Hakuta, K. 'Perspectives on Language Maintenance and Shift in Mexican-origin Students.' In P. Phelan and A.L. Davidson, Eds., Renegotiating Cultural Diversity in American Schools (New York, NY: Teacher's College, Columbia University, 1993).

Tse, L. 'Language Brokering Among Latino Adolescents: Prevalence, Attitudes and School Performance.' Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 17 (1995).

Padilla, A., Lindholm, K., Chen, A., Duran, R., Hakuta, K., Lambert, W. and Tucker, G.R. 'The English-only Movement: Myth, Reality and Implications for Psychology.' American Psychologist 46 (1991).

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