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Alvarado, Nora V. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the educational and societal experiences that lead students to maintain or lose their heritage language to see how these experiences affect the language choices that young Latino/a adults are making after high school. Examining the experiences that lead language learners to lose or maintain their native language is important…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Hispanic Americans, Native Language
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Langager, Mark – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
This paper is an exploratory study of the childhood academic language environments (CALEs) of bilingual Japanese expatriate students. Student (n=28) and parent (n=67) surveys were adapted from the Life History Calendar (Caspi et al. 1996) to gather retrospective CALE data at a Japanese-English bilingual high school. Principal Components Analysis…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Credentials, Research Needs, Intervention