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Meakins, Felicity; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
In situations of language endangerment, the ability to understand a language tends to persevere longer than the ability to speak it. As a result, the possibility of language revival remains high even when few speakers remain. Nonetheless, this potential requires that those with high levels of comprehension received sufficient input as children for…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Child Language, Language Variation, Foreign Countries
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Gibbons, John; Lascar, Elizabeth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
To discover the extent to which academic register develops in language-minority children, it is important to describe the academic register of the minority language and then to develop instruments to measure its development. This article looks at the means that were developed to accomplish these two tasks of description and instrument development…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries