Publications

Publication details [#41587]

Krashen, Stephen, Anne Nguyen and Fay Shin. 2001. Development of the First Language is not a Barrier to Second-Language Acquisition: Evidence from Vietnamese Immigrants to the United States. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 4 (3) : 159–164.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | language maintenance | language proficiency

Language as a subject

English, American | Vietnamese

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discusses how the Vietnamese first language proficiency of elementary and middle school children in California doesn't form any barrier to English second-language acquisition.