Sarah J. Shin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sarah J. Shin plays a role.
Articles
2009 An exploratory study of the use of a Thai politeness marker by Thai-English bilingual adolescents ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 158, pp. 31–56 | Article
This study examines the use of a Thai politeness marker, khráb (ครับ), by two Thai-English bilingual brothers, aged 11 and 15, during their 3-year stay in the U.S. By examining spontaneous speech data collected over eleven months (from Month 15 to Month 25 from time of arrival in the U.S.) in the… read more
2006 High-stakes testing and heritage language maintenance Heritage Language Development: Focus on East Asian Immigrants, Kondo-Brown, Kimi (ed.), pp. 127–144 | Article
This chapter discusses the impact of the current testing-driven educational policies on heritage language (HL) maintenance by language minority (particularly, East Asian) students. High-stakes testing has come to exert a growing pressure on American education since the passage of the No Child Left… read more