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Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove – 1979
Semilingualism is discussed as a sociolinguistic concept and is viewed as a mediating variable when the society reproduces the class structure and vocational structure of suppressed minorities. A Finnish group of immigrant children in Sweden is the minority considered. It was found that the longer the Finnish children were educated in Finnish, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
