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Publication details [#65874]

Álvarez de la Fuente, Esther, Raquel Fernández Fuertes and Óscar Arratia García. 2019. Bilingual children as interpreters in everyday life: how natural interpreting reinforces minority languages. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (4) : 338–355.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
bilingualism | child | family conversation | interpreting | linguistic community | minority language
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Children that run up bilingually frequently interpret naturally between their two languages in daily life, and this strengthens minority languages. This study displays that parents' language strategies at home combined with the linguistic communities where they live play a vital role in their children's consecutive language use practice.