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| Contentid | 6550 |
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| Title | News Article: Immigrant Parents Struggle to Keep Their Children Bilingual |
| Body | From http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/22/immigrant_parents_struggle_to_keep_their_children_bilingual/?page=1 Immigrant parents struggle to keep their children bilingual By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | July 22, 2007 Researchers say immigrant parents nationwide are confronting a difficult truth: Their children are losing their languages. According to research presented to Congress in May, even the children of immigrants prefer to speak English by the time they are adults. Rubén G. Rumbaut, a sociologist at the University of California at Irvine, and his team of researchers looked at 5,700 adults in their 20s and 30s in Southern California from different generations to see how long their language survived. A key finding centered on 1,900 American-born children of immigrants. The shift toward English among them was swift: While 87 percent grew up speaking another language at home, only 34 percent said they spoke it well by adulthood. And nearly 70 percent said they preferred to speak English. Read the entire article at http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/22/immigrant_parents_struggle_to_keep_their_children_bilingual/?page=1 . |
| Source | Boston Globe |
| Inputdate | 2007-08-05 11:25:19 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2007-08-05 11:25:19 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-08-06 00:00:00 |
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