Language and Intergroup Contact: Investigating the Impact of Bilingual Instruction on Children’s Intergroup Attitudes

By Stephen C. Wright, Linda R. Tropp. 2005

92 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Social Psychology

1. A. Rutland
2. Melanie Killen
3. J. Sankar
4. A. Ata
5. Dean Lusher
6. Brock Bastian
7. F. Aboud
8. Lindsey Cameron

In Sociology and Political Science

1. A. Rutland
2. Melanie Killen
3. J. Sankar
4. P. V. Avermaet
5. A. Ata
6. Dean Lusher
7. Brock Bastian
8. F. Aboud

Citations in the corpus

• Intergroup contact in context: the mediating role of social norms and group-based perceptions on the contact-prejudice link (2009, background): “…environments that facilitate commitment to ‘relationship building’ have been suggested as critical for optimal contact to occur (Hughes, 2007) and bilingual environments have been shown to have a positive influence on school children’s intergroup attitudes (Hughes, 2007; Wright & Tropp, 2005).”
• Friendship and identity in a language-integrated school (2007, background): “The peer relations of children in this school resembled Hispanics in the California study who selected an equal number of potential friends from both groups (Wright & Tropp, 2005).”
• A Developmental Science Approach to Reducing Prejudice and Social Exclusion: Intergroup Processes, Social‐Cognitive Development, and Moral Reasoning (2015, background): “…into a number of prejudice reduction interventions in the form of cooperative learning groups, bilingual education, and racially integrated schooling, and vicarious contact through television and fictional stories (e.g., Graves, 1999; Maras & Brown, 1996, 2000; Slavin, 1995; Wright & Tropp, 2005).”
• Language diversity in education: evolving from multilingual education to functional multilingual learning (2014, background): “A positive attitude towards linguistic diversity may contribute to a better understanding between children in the classroom and elsewhere at school (Genesee & Gándara, 1999; Wright & Tropp, 2005).”
• Interventions to reduce prejudice and enhance inclusion and respect for ethnic differences in early childhood: A systematic review (2012, unknown): “…languageinstructioninFrenchandSpanish(e.g.,Aboud&Sankar,2007;Wright&Tropp,2005),anafter-school integrated program (Aboud, Friedmann, & Smith, in press), multicultural education about different ethnic groups…”