for their language use. Specifically, it investigates how the students negotiated legitimacy for using their target … language German in their classroom. Based on the premise that linguistic legitimacy is crucial for the maintenance and … participant observations. Findings revealed that, while English dominated the lessons as the default legitimate language among the …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …

This paper presents the results of an empirical study designed to map German language proficiency among students at … German language proficiency of the Czech population only to an insignificant extent. Second, the school environment (the … opportunity to learn the language, compulsory subject, language study motivation) has a decisive influence on the respondents …

Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing … pronunciation and vocabulary of language pairs. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the period from 1997 to … 2003, the linguistic distance measure is applied within a human capital framework of language acquisition. It is shown that …