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Bezcioglu-Goktolga, Irem; Yagmur, Kutlay – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This study investigated the family language policy of second-generation Turkish immigrant families in the Netherlands by exploring their language ideologies, practices, and management strategies. Using an ethnographic approach, data were collected through a set of observations and interviews with 20 families. Transcriptions of interviews and memos…
Descriptors: Turkish, Immigrants, Family Environment, Language Usage
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Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio; Alòs i Font, Hèctor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This article empirically studies the impact of bilingualism on educational achievements. This relationship has been thoroughly studied in a number of countries around the world, but not in Russia. We used a sample of 709 ethnic Tatar school students aged 15-16 (in the ninth grade) in the spring of the year 2010. We found a positive significant…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Academic Achievement, Turkic Languages, Russian
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Dolson, David P. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1985
Describes a study of home language use patterns of urban Hispanic families to determine the differences between academic achievement, language development, and psychosocial adjustment of children whose families have maintained Spanish as the main home language and those whose families have switched to English. The results challenge the assumption…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Bilingualism, Elementary Education