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ERIC Number: EJ579698
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0155-0640
Can the Principle of "One Person-One Language" be Disregarded as Unrealistically Elitist?
Dopke, Susanne
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, v21 n1 p41-56 1998
Discusses childhood bilingualism, reviewing the one person-one language principle and the criticism against it, discussing shortcomings of the criticism, examining what the principle can do to bilingual families, and noting the sociolinguistic and developmental effects that one person-one language principle can have on the acquisition of the minority language. (SM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, English Only Movement, Language Attitudes, Official Languages, Second Language Learning
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General
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Language: English
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