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Title: The role of fathers in language maintenance and language attrition : the case of Korean-English late bilinguals in New Zealand
Related: International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism, Vol. 13, Issue 3, (2010), p.285-301
DOI: 10.1080/13670050903193958
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2010
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 130200 Curriculum and Pedagogy 200400 Linguistics 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Author/Creator: Kim, Sun Hee Ok
Author/Creator: Starks, Donna
Description: The father's role in children's L1 maintenance and L2 learning is a relatively unexplored area. This study considers the L1 and L2 proficiency of 30 Korean-English late bilinguals who immigrated to New Zealand during their adolescence and how their L1 and L2 proficiency is influenced by the language use of family members. Data were collected through a questionnaire, a vocabulary test and a story-retelling task, and analysed in terms of language use and language proficiency measures. While language use of Korean siblings and fathers is shown to have a dual role in both affecting language use and L1 proficiency, the language use of Korean mothers is not associated with their children's patterns of language use or their children's L1 proficiency. We attribute the differences to different types of interaction between Korean mothers and fathers, and their adolescent children. The data also show that parental language use plays a minimal role in the adolescent L2 acquisition.
Description: 17 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 130200 Curriculum and Pedagogy
Subject Keyword: 200400 Linguistics
Subject Keyword: 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Subject Keyword: language attrition
Subject Keyword: language maintenance
Subject Keyword: language proficiency
Subject Keyword: language use
Subject Keyword: family
Subject Keyword: Korean
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Linguistics

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/188810
Identifier: ISSN:1747-7522
Identifier: mq-rm-2010004733
Language: eng
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