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Language diversity, problem or resource? : a social and educational perspective on language minorities in the United States / Sandra Lee McKay and Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, editors.

McKay, Sandra. (Added Author). Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia. (Added Author).
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  • ISBN: 0066326087 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: xiii, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; Newbury House, c1988.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographies.
Formatted Contents Note: Orientations in language planning / Richard Ruíz -- Understanding the American linguistic mosaic : a historical overview of language maintenance and language shift / Jean Molesky -- Language minorities in the United States in the 1980s : the evidence from the 1980 census / Dorothy Waggoner -- Language situation of Mexican Americans / Guadalupe Valdés -- Language situation of Puerto Rican / Ana Celia Zentella -- Language situation of Cuban Americans / Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy -- Language situation of Chinese Americans / Sau-ling Cynthia Wong -- Language situation of Filipino Americans / Rosita Galang -- Language situation of Korean Americans / Bok-Lim Kim -- Language situation of Vietnamese Americans / Chuong Hoang Chung.
Second language acquisition theory relevant to language minorities : Cummins, Krashen, and Schumann / Mary McGroaty -- Weighing educational alternatives / Sandra McKay -- Educational rights of language minorities / Sua-ling Cynthia Wong.
Subject: Language and education > United States.
Language planning > United States.
Language policy > United States.
Linguistic minorities > United States.
Multilingualism > United States.

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