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Shift in the Use of Migrant Community Languages in Australia
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Karidakis, Maria; Arunachalam, Dharma – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
In this paper, we first explore the trends in the maintenance of migrant community languages among the first generation migrants and then the socio-economic variation in the shift in use of community languages. Our analysis showed that language shift to English among first generation migrants has not been uniform, with some migrant groups adopting…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Educational Attainment