. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …

economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and … its merits in two different applications. First, the effect of linguistic distance in the language acquisition of … of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants …

More than 4.4 million students enrolled in US public schools participate in English language learner programs because … of linguistic barriers to learning in regular classrooms. Whether native language instruction should be used in these … bilingual education programs (which use some native language instruction) and English-only programs are not significantly …