Publications

Publication details [#60665]

Law, Sinming. 2015. Children learning Chinese as a home language in an English-dominant society. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 18 (6) : 735–748.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | family conversation | family role | language dominance | language maintenance

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

It is argued that families and community play an essential part in their children's proficient Chinese heritage language acquisition in English-dominant societies and that educators ought to advise parents on this matter and cooperate with them.