Publications

Publication details [#46876]

Fishman, Joshua A., Guadelupe Valdes, Rebecca Chavez and William Perez. 2006. Developing Minority Language Resources. The Case of Spanish in California. (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism). Multilingual Matters. 344 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language shift | language teaching | minority language | university

Language as a subject

Spanish, American

Annotation

This study on language shift to English among Latino professionals in California, particularly explores the potential contribution of high school and university level Spanish instruction to Spanish language maintenance among "heritage" language students.