Publications

Publication details [#60253]

Chen, Ming-Chung, Yu-Ching Yeh and Hsiang-Ju Ho. 2015. Learning Vietnamese as a heritage language in Taiwan. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36 (3) : 255–265.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | immigrant | L1-acquisition | language attitude | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

Vietnamese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study indicates that the attitudes of Vietnamese immigrant children in Taiwan towards heritage language (HL) learning are positively affected by maternal HL input and by residence at their immigrant parents' home. There is but restricted school support in children's Vietnamese courses.