Linguistics & Semiotics, Teaching - Reading & Language, Demography, Education - General & Miscellaneous, Education - Social & Political Aspects, Anthropology, Ethnic & Minority Studies
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Overview
The book presents case studies of immigrant minority groups and immigrant minority languages in Europe and abroad, analysed from demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives. The demographic perspective focuses on the role of language and ethnicity in multicultural population statistics, the sociolinguistic perspective on the vitality of immigrant minority languages, and the educational perspective on the status of immigrant minority languages in education.Editorials
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Putting their work on language acquisition by ethnic minorities in a broader European context, Broeder and Extra (Tilburg U., the Netherlands) view their Dutch case studies from comparative demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives. Appends surveys on home language and immigrant minority language instruction, and the Council of the European Communities' directive on the schooling of migrant workers' children. Lacks an index. The subtitle on the cover and title page differ by a preposition: "of" vs. "on." Distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
June 28, 2000
Publisher
Mulitlingual Matters
Pages
130
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781853594304