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Kim, Su Yeong; Zhang, Minyu; Chen, Shanting; Song, Jiaxiu; Lopez, Belem G.; Rodriguez, Erin M.; Calzada, Esther J.; Hou, Yang; Yan, Jinjin; Shen, Yishan – Developmental Psychology, 2020
We advance a tripartite framework of language use to encompass language skills, the practice of language skills, and the subjective experiences associated with language use among Mexican-origin adolescents who function as language brokers by translating and interpreting for their English-limited parents. Using data collected over 2 waves from a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Translation, Mexican Americans, Spanish
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Shen, Yishan; Seo, Eunjin; Walt, Dorothy Clare; Kim, Su Yeong – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
This study focused on early adolescents' stress of language brokering and examined the moderating role of family cumulative risk in the relation of language brokering to adjustment problems. Data came from self-reports of 604 low-income Mexican American adolescent language brokers (54% female; X[bar] [subscript age]= 12.4; SD = 0.97; 75% born in…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Mexican Americans, Early Adolescents, Low Income Groups