Most immigrant children arrive in the United States as monolingual speakers of their native language, develop bilingualism as they acquire English, establish English-speaking households, and raise their children as English-speaking monolinguals. ... In an effort to address these concerns, this paper reports on research that investigates native language maintenance and shift to English among 64 Mexican-descent children and their families. ... Often in America such people are the children of immigrants; these children grow up speaking their parents' native language in their childhood home w...

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It is no surprise therefore that even popular cultural arenas such as the Academy of the Motion Picture of Arts and Sciences in its 2007 Oscar Awards declaratively went "green" (Milliken, 2007), with more thematic foci on environmental issues emerging in recent adolescent Newbury winners like Hoot (Hiassen, 2003) and its subsequent 2006 motion picture adaptation (Shriner, 2006) bearing the same title. ... Indigenous Native American Nations have consistently shown a preference for encoding 2the physical universe in and through language. In his classic 1912 study of the Paiute Native A...

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