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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465383403321

Titolo

The New Immigrant and Language : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration / / edited by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desirée Qin-Hilliard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2014]

©2002

ISBN

1-135-70994-7

1-315-05422-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

304.8/73

Soggetti

Immigrants - United States

Electronic books.

United States Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

''Transferred to Digital Printing 2010''-- T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Introduction; Volume Introduction; Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning; Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition; How Long? A Synthesis of Research on Academic Achievement in a Second Language; Linguistic Interdependence and the Educational Development of Bilingual Children; A Meta-Analysis of Selected Studies on the Effectiveness of Bilingual Education; The World Outside and Inside Schools: Language and Immigrant Children

Effects of Minority-Language Literacy on the Academic Achievement of Vietnamese Youth in New OrleansE Pluribus Unum: Bilingualism and Loss of Language in the Second Generation; Perspectives on Language Maintenance and Shift in Mexican-Origin Students; Language Brokering Among Latino Adolescents: Prevalence, Attitudes, and School Performance; The English-Only Movement: Myths, Reality, and Implications for Psychology; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.