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Publication details [#66133]

Backus, Ad and Yeşim Sevinç. 2019. Anxiety, language use and linguistic competence in an immigrant context: a vicious circle? International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (6) : 706–724.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language proficiency | language use | migration

Language as a subject

Dutch | Turkish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study states that language anxiety in the immigrant context, in both its heritage language anxiety (HLA) and majority language anxiety (MLA) manifestations, can be ascribed to linguistic and socioemotional causes. A vicious cirkle links bilinguals’ language knowledge, language use and language anxiety. Data stem from three generations of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands (n?=?30).