An examination of seminal studies in sociolinguistics and bilingualism serves as a basis for setting the parameters for the language planning response to the Lau decision. The studies discussed are primarily those of W. E. Lambert and the Unesco report, "The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education..." (MS)

This study examined bilingual children's performance in reading Persian and English at grades one, three, and six. Indications are that the bilingual children performed not quite as well as their monolingual counterparts in either of the languages despite the high degree of variation among the subjects. (Author/POP)

Attempts to characterize the process of first language acquisition by children. Suggests that language learning involves the acquisition of both language knowledge and language behavior, hence of the internalized representations underlying linguistic competence and also the ability to deploy this knowledge in interpreting and speaking the language…

Earlier version of this paper presented at the Modern Language Center, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada. (RS)

Data on Dutch-Turkish language-mixing behavior of Turkish children growing up in The Netherlands are presented and analyzed. While functional characteristics of the children's language-mixing were compatible with models from earlier research, structural analysis suggests no universality of surface structure constraint rules for sentence-internal…