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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.