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Brutt-Griffler, Janina and Eunjee Jang. 2019. Language as a bridge to higher education: a large-scale empirical study of heritage language proficiency on language minority students’ academic success. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (4) : 322–337.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
high school | language proficiency | literacy | minority language | monolingualism | student | university
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper explores whether in the U.S., language minority (LM) high school students’ heritage language (HL) ability and use affect high school completion and university attendance and success. Results bolster the argument that continued use of HL and HL literacy increases academic feat.