Parents' attitudes toward heritage language maintenance for their children and their efforts to help their children maintain the heritage language: A case study of Korean-Canadian immigrants

Language, Culture and Curriculum

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 223-235

  Park, Seong Man ^a   Sarkar, Mela ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultural identity; Ethnic community; Korean immigrants; Language maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 37049006522     PISSN: 07908318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/lcc337.0     Document Type: Article

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