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Publication details [#60799]

Willard, Jessica A., Alexandru Agache, Julia Jäkel, Christian W. Glück and Birgit Leyendecker. 2015. Family factors predicting vocabulary in Turkish as a heritage language. Applied Psycholinguistics 36 (4) : 875– 898.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | immigrant | language maintenance | language proficiency | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

Turkish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study shows that both home literacy environment (HLE) and being exposed to Turkish (esp. via mothers’ use of Turkish) are both important for (119 preschool and 121 fourth grade) Turkish childrens' heritage vocabulary proficiency in Germany.