MAINTAINING A MINORITY LANGUAGE: A CASE STUDY OF HISPANIC TEENAGERS

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Olmedo, Irma M.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Maintaining A Minority Language: A Case Study of Hispanic Teenagers. John Gibbons and Elizabeth Ramirez. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2004. Pp. x + 240. £25.95 paper.On reading the title of this volume, the reader might assume that the study involves teenagers in a large urban area of the United States. Potential readers will be surprised to realize that this book is about Hispanic teenagers in Sydney, Australia, and the efforts of these teens and their families to maintain their Spanish language. The authors, Gibbons and Ramirez, argue that the understanding of minority language maintenance and shift “requires the examination of the degree of acquisition of various elements of proficiency, including spoken language, basic literacy skills, grammar and high register” (p. l). Thus, having set a rather rigorous benchmark for themselves, they proceed to study 106 Hispanic teenagers to determine the degree of maintenance of Spanish among them as well as their attitudes toward their bilingualism.
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Ending Page	523
Page Count	2
Starting Page	522
ISSN	02722631
e-ISSN	14701545
DOI	10.1017/s0272263106230237
Journal	Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Issue Number	03
Volume Number	28
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2006-09-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Studies in Second Language Acquisition Hispanic Teenagers Minority Language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Book Review
Subject	Education Linguistics and Language