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Download full textSpolsky, Bernard; Holm, Wayne – 1971
The amount of English spoken by six-year-old Navaho children as they enter first grade is increasing and will probably continue to increase. Contacts outside the reservation contribute to this increase as do the almost completely monolingual (English) schools. Location of residence is also a factor. Linguistic borrowing of English words is another…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Beginning Reading
