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 …

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 …