Exploring the relationship between family language policy and heritage language knowledge among second generation Russian-Jewish immigrants in Israel

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 400-418

  Schwartz, Mila ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Family language policy; Heritage language maintenance; Lexical knowledge in l1; Russian Jewish immigrants in Israel; Second generation of immigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650628471     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434630802147916     Document Type: Article

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