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dc.contributor.authorPapadimatos, Alexa
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-27T13:35:29Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-22T14:27:07Z
dc.date.available2018-09-27T13:35:29Z
dc.date.available2020-06-22T14:27:07Z
dc.date.issued2018-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/115
dc.description1 online resource (iii, 81 pages) : illustrations.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to examine what specific factors influence student linguistic choices and how those choices affect the rate of heritage/home language attrition and its subsequent maintenance. A qualitative research design consisting of interviews was used to examine how heritage language speaking college students felt about their heritage language proficiency, family connections and experiences in American public schools. The languages reflected in this research include Spanish, Haitian Creole, Romanian and Italian. The participants in this study are all students of a four-year comprehensive public university, but have grown up in areas all across New York state. The key objective for this research was to explore how the perceived attitudes of teachers, parents and members from the same minority language groups as the participants, affected the participants' own view of their home language and if the participants felt that maintaining their home languages was important. All of the participants noted that maintaining their heritage/ home language was an integral part in their success in social, economic and political contexts. This research concludes with recommendations on how school administrations and individual school teachers can come to better serve their heritage language speaking students, by checking their own assumptions about minority language communities. [from author's abstract]en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherState University of New York College at Fredoniaen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectBilingualism in children--Social condition--Research--New York (State).en_US
dc.subjectCollege students--Decision making.en_US
dc.subjectSociolinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectBilingualism in children--Parent participation.en_US
dc.titlePerspectives on heritage language and the U.S. and student language choicesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
refterms.dateFOA2020-06-22T14:27:07Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY at Fredonia


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