Publications

Publication details [#61456]

Bakalian, Anny and Talar Chahinian. 2016. Language in Armenian American communities: Western Armenian and efforts for preservation. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2016 (237) : 37–58.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | foreign language teaching | immigrant | language maintenance | language shift

Language as a subject

Armenian, Modern Western

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper explores the state of Western Armenian language instruction in Armenian day schools across the US to assess the condition of language spread and acquisition via the particular structure of private schools and their success in the heritage language preservation of Western Armenian, which UNESCO categorized as imperiled language in 2010.