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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
Peer reviewedWeidong, Chen – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1996
An analysis of the use of English by some Chinese postgraduate students and visiting scholars in Britain, in terms of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), identifies the frequency and level of difficulty of certain activities that involve the use of English and the most helpful activities for improving a given…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedLacroix, Robert; Vaillancourt, Francois – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1987
The impact of language skills on earnings should be measured using multivariate analysis with a model of the earnings determination process. Analysis of data on the 1973 earnings of university graduates revealed that cross-tabular and multivariate results were quite different. The former method attributed other earnings determinants to language…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, English, French
