Language acquisition as the main vehicle of social integration: Russian immigrants of the 1990s in Israel

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Volumn , Issue 164, 2003, Pages 83-105

  Remennick, Larissa ^a  

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EID: 16344368936     PISSN: 01652516     EISSN: 16133668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijsl.2003.057     Document Type: Article

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