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A Comparison of How Balanced Bilingual and Pseudo-Bilingual Students, Who Are Second-Generation Chinese-Americans, Develop and Maintain the Native Language while Learning English.
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Lin, Lingfen – 1998
A study investigated factors in Chinese language maintenance among balanced and pseudo-bilinguals who are second-generation Chinese-Americans. Subjects were 12 fifth-grade students in a Chinese-language school; half were balanced bilinguals (proficient in both languages) and half were pseudo-bilinguals (those in whom skills are more developed in…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingualism, Child Language, Chinese