,Bilingualism in Immigrant Children: A Preliminary Essay

Bilingualism in Immigrant Children: A Preliminary Essay


 

Publication Date: June 1996

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Sonia Bychkov Green; Ida Bychkov

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Immigration; Language; Youth

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Bilingualism is clearly a positive social phenomenon, and immigrant children should be encouraged to become and remain bilingual. There are three stages of language acquisition, and it is the family's response to the second stage, in which the child shows a preference for the new language, that will determine whether the child loses the native language or emerges as a bilingual adult.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.72 no.4, Summer 1996.