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Direct linkChiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the "distance" between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have learning other languages. The linguistic distance measure is then used in an analysis of the determinants of English language proficiency…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Minorities, Second Languages, Foreign Countries
