Publications

Publication details [#61556]

Mejía, Glenda. 2016. Language usage and culture maintenance: a study of Spanish-speaking immigrant mothers in Australia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (1) : 23–39.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | immigrant | language and culture | language maintenance | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

English, Australian | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

16 native Spanish-speaking immigrant mothers that wed English-speaking fathers in Australia, are shown to preserve and pass on their language and culture to their children, whilst believing in the assets of bilingual acquisition in a globalised world.