Publications

Publication details [#48968]

Basham, C. and Ann K. Fathman. 2008. The Latent Speaker: Attaining Adult Fluency in an Endangered Language. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 11 (5) : 577–597.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language attitude | language proficiency | language shift

Language as a subject

Languages, Alaskan, Athabascan

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper explores how language attitudes, latent proficiency, and learning contexts, inflence the subsequent adult heritage language learning process of latent speakers of Alaskan Athabascan languages.