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Peer reviewedWaas, Margit – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1993
In a sociolinguistic study of nonpathological language loss, residents of German-speaking background who arrived in Australia between 1970 and 1981 were interviewed. Quantitative findings show an insignificant difference in favor of the second language, whereas qualitative feelings of competence in the first language had decreased. (Contains 27…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Foreign Countries, German, Immigrants
