Heritage Language Fluency, Ethnic Identity, and School Effort of Immigrant Chinese and Mexican Adolescents

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-37

  Kim, Su Yeong ^a   Chao, Ruth K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; ethnic identity; heritage language; Mexican; school effort

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN AMERICANS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; READING; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIALIZATION; WRITING;

EID: 58449089463     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013052     Document Type: Article

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