Bilingualism (Ancestral Language Maintenance) among Native American, Vietnamese American, and Hispanic American College Students.

Abstract

The role of attitude, motivation and other affective factors have been shown to have major effects on second language acquisition, but their role in ancestral language maintenance has been under examined. This paper explores background and affective variables affecting ancestral language maintenance and bilingualism for college students of three ethnic minority groups. Results suggest that belief about parental attitudes, view of importance of learning the ancestral language, and integrative motivation are significantly related to adoption of ancestral

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 8 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.