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Re: Connglish

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, November 20, 2006, 10:36
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpjonsson@...>:

> Clearly it would have been more advanced at that age if I > had had more regular German interlocutors than my mother, my > aunt and one of the physiotherapists at my Kindergarten for > disabled children, and thus the incentive to conform and > correct had been stronger. I wonder if there has been any > research on the difference between children learning a > language being immersed in a community, or only from a few > adults in an immigrant milieu?
From my sporadic reading of _Lärarnas tidning_, it seems to be fairly common that children of immigrants, who more-or-less only speak the ancestral language with family and relatives, learn that language quite poorly. This is commonly advanced as a reason for whatever _hemspråksundervisning_ is called in English (lit. "home language tuition"). Andreas