Re: Connglish

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