The Acquisition and Maintenance of Language by Minority Children.

Day, Richard R.

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Publication Date: 1979-Dec

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The Acquisition and Maintenance of Language by Minority Children.

Day, Richard R.

Language Learning, v29 n2 p295-303 Dec 1979

Ninety-eight children whose first language is Hawaii Creole English (HCE) acquired English without a formal language program while maintaining their first language. Learning the dominant variety of the language in a bicultural/bidialectal environment did not adversely affect performance in HCE. (PMJ)

Descriptors: Creoles, Diglossia, Language Dominance, Language Maintenance, Language Research, Minority Group Children, Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics

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Language: English

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