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Hinton, Leanne – 1999
This digest draws on a set of linguistic autobiographies written by Asian-American college students in classes at the University of California at Berkeley over the last several years, and examines the pattern of language shift that takes place in the young first- and second-generation student and why this shift takes place. It also looks at the…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Heritage Education
Reilly, Tarey – 1988
Human beings have as great a capacity for losing or forgetting a language as they do for learning one. Many have lost language skills due to a lack of a linguistically appropriate environment in which to use a particular language. Millions of individuals who have studied a second language in high school or college for several years have lost the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Design