Publications

Publication details [#58040]

Aukrust, Vibeke Grøver, Veslemøy Rydland and Helene Fulland. 2013. Living in neighborhoods with high or low co-ethnic concentration: Turkish–Norwegian-speaking students' vocabulary skills and reading comprehension. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 16 (6) : 657–674.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | immigrant | language dominance | language proficiency | literacy

Language as a subject

Norwegian | Turkish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper explores neighborhood (high or low co-ethnic concentration) impact on immigrant students' reported home and peer language use, and on language and literacy competence in Turkish–Norwegian fifth-graders living in two Norwegian cities.