Face(t)s of first language loss.

By D. S. Vanderboegh. 2000

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Parents’ Attitudes Toward Heritage Language Maintenance for Their Children and Their Efforts to Help Their Children Maintain the Heritage Language: A Case Study of Korean-Canadian Immigrants (2007, background): “Concerning recent research trends in language maintenance in the Canadian context, Kouritzin (1999) insists that the respective roles of the home, school and community should be taken into consideration in order to help minority children maintain and enhance their first language development with…”
Loss of Family Languages: Should Educators Be Concerned? (2000, unknown): “D ow nl oa de d by [T he U ni ve rs ity o f B rit ish C ol um bi a] a t 2 1: 51 2 3 N ov em be r 2 01 1 Kouritzin, 1999; Portes & Hao, 1998).”
A longitudinal study of Chinese children and adolescents learning English in the United States (2003, background): “The rapid L1 loss and halting of L1 development among younger immigrants have also been documented by a rich set of survey studies (see Krashen, 1996, for a review) and qualitative case studies (Kouritzin, 1999; Wong–Fillmore, 1991).”
Language attrition and theories of forgetting: A cross-disciplinary review (2004, background): “…their children to use the L1 at home with the objective to support the school language (Denison, 1977; Hill & Hill, 1986; Lambert & Taylor, 1996; Wong Fillmore, 1991) or to protect themselves or their children from becoming victims of discrimination, stigmatization or racism (Kouritzin, 1999).”