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Chen, Stephen H.; Zhou, Qing; Uchikoshi, Yuuko – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Though a number of language socialization processes are theorized to promote children's heritage language proficiency (HLP), little research has considered these processes in a single study and examined their prospective relations to multiple domains of HLP in school-age children. In a two-wave longitudinal study of Chinese American children of…
Descriptors: Socialization, Chinese Americans, Language Proficiency, Longitudinal Studies
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Sailors, Misty; Hoffman, James V.; Pearson, P. David; Beretvas, S. Natasha; Matthee, Bertus – Bilingual Research Journal, 2010
In this article, we report on the results of a project devoted to improving literacy in South Africa's rural schools; specifically we report the results of an intervention study that centered on improving mother-tongue literacy instruction offered to learners in Grades 1 and 2 in South African schools. Our findings demonstrate that there are…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Intervention