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Download full textHinton, 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
