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The Effect of Community Context on Intergenerational Spanish Maintenance and English Proficiency Among Latina and Latino Children

The Effect of Community Context on Intergenerational Spanish Maintenance and English Proficiency Among Latina and Latino Children

Garrett, Nancy Alison

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LinguisticsAnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 158112001X
ISBN13: 9781581120011
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Published: Sep 1 1997
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In this dissertation I investigate how community context affects Spanish language use and English proficiency among Latina and Latino children in the United States, focusing on the children of immigrants. I view children's language attributes through a sociological perspective that recognizes that children learn and use languages within specific social and cultural contexts, and that these contexts have an important effect on language acquisition and use. This theoretical perspective leads to the hypothesis that children's language skills and language use will be affected by the communities they live in. I predict that living in a metropolitan area with a greater propinquity and availability of Spanish speakers will increase a child's likelihood of speaking Spanish, because this will increase opportunities for using and hearing Spanish and promote Spanish within a larger United States context that often devalues languages other than English. At the same time, I hypothesize that community context will have little effect on children's English skills because of the ubiquitous presence of English in the daily life of any U.S. child.

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