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Peer reviewedExtra, Guus; Vallen, Ton – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Reviews demographic and linguistic consequences of recent processes of migration and minority group influx in Western Europe and describes the case of the Netherlands to illustrate these effects. Highlights first- and second-language studies of immigrant and ethnic minority groups and notes resulting major demographic trends in Dutch society and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Pluralism, Demography, Dutch
Peer reviewedSpolsky, Bernard – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Israel is fertile ground for research in multilingualism. Revitalization of Hebrew resulted in a tendency for ideological and instrumentally-motivated monolingualism to replace earlier multilingual patterns, even in the context of pressure for language shift by Arabic, Russian, Yiddish, and other languages, and Hebrew's competition with English in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewedMcKay, Sandra Lee – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Examines demographic changes in the United States since 1980s influencing the recent effort to assert English over other languages. Key issues include: efforts to ensure English dominance in English-Only initiatives; court rulings on English-Only regulations in the workplace; and bilingual education legislation. Reviews current research on…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Competition, Court Litigation
