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The Effects of Self-Confidence in Bilingual Abilities on Language Use: Perspectives on Pasifika Language Use in South Auckland

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Starks, Donna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005

This paper considers speakers' differing degrees of self-confidence in their bilingual abilities and their effects on reported language use and observed patterns of language choice. One hundred and twenty individuals from New Zealand's four largest Pasifika communities--Samoan, Cook Islands, Tongan and Niuean--reported on their self-confidence in…

Descriptors: Language Patterns, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Malayo Polynesian Languages