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Publication details [#66511]

Makarova, Veronika, Natalia Terekhova and Amin Mousavi. 2019. Children’s language exposure and parental language attitudes in Russian-as-a-heritage-language acquisition by bilingual and multilingual children in Canada. International Journal of Bilingualism 23 (2) : 457–485.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
bilingualism | child | family conversation | family role | language attitude | language maintenance | language proficiency | minority language | multilingualism
Language as a subject
Russian
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
journals.sagepub.com/home/ijb

Annotation

This inquiry limns some aspects of the maintenance of Russian as a heritage language amid bilingual/multilingual children in Saskatchewan, Canada. It centers on the relationship between parents’ language attitudes and children’s language exposure on the one hand and child language proficiency on the other hand.