Publications

Publication details [#48909]

Trofimovich, Pavel and Elizabeth Gatbonton. 2008. The Ethnic Group Affiliation and L2 Proficiency Link: Empirical Evidence. Language Awareness 17 (3) : 229–248.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

economics | ethnicity | globalization | language proficiency | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English, Canadian | French, Canadian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article explores whether and how social factors linked to ethnic group affiliation affect second language proficiency. The proposed example involves French-English bilinguals from Quebec.