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Download full textGuitart, Jorge M. – 1977
This paper examines the question of language loyalty in the United States and explores the implications that the institutional teaching of modern languages may have for ethnic language maintenance. The education of United States ethnics has always resulted in the loss of the ethnic tongue as a resource. However, although negative attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Policy, English (Second Language)
Tuckett, Alan; Cara, Sue – 1999
The language competence of adults in Great Britain was examined in a national study involving interviews between April 28 and May 9, 1999, with a representative sample of 3,967 adults over the age of 16 years. Of those surveyed, 58% spoke only their mother tongue, 29% spoke one additional language, and 10% spoke two additional languages. Fifteen…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults, Age Differences
