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The Impact of Filipina Domestic Workers on Hong Kong Primary School Children's L2 English Spoken CAF and Reading Accuracy and Fluency

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Jacobus Francois Wolfaardt; Alex Ho-Cheong Leung – Applied Linguistics, 2025

This study investigates the impact of Filipina domestic workers (FilDWs), a marginalized group in Hong Kong (HK), on HK children's language development. It focusses on FilDWs' influence on the second language (L2) English of bilingual HK primary school children attending an English Medium of Instruction school. The elements investigated are L2…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Housework, Service Occupations