Publications

Publication details [#56766]

Bylund, Emanuel and Manuel Díaz. 2012. The effects of heritage language instruction on first language proficiency: a psycholinguistic perspective. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 15 (5) : 593–609.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | bilingual acquisition | language maintenance | language proficiency | psycholinguistics

Language as a subject

Spanish | Swedish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study confirms the positive, yet rather short term impact of weekly Spanish heritage language classes on first language proficiency maintenance in Spanish-Swedish bilingual high school students, who settled in Sweden before puberty onset.