Publications

Publication details [#40904]

Potowski, Kim. 2004. Student Spanish Use and Investment in a Dual Immersion Classroom: Implications for Second Language Acquisition and Heritage Language Maintenance. The Modern Language Journal 88 (1) : 75–101.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language use | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/modl

Annotation

This study examines how much Spanish is utilized and for what purposes by 4 students (2 Spanish L1 and 2 Spanish L2) in a Spanish-English dual immersion classroom, and discusses the implications for second language acquisition and heritage language maintenance.