TY - JOUR
T1 - Language minority learners' home language use is dynamic
AU - Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette
AU - Kieffer, Michael J.
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - This study investigates change in the home language environment of Language Minority (LM) learners between kindergarten and eighth grade, drawing on data from the National Center for Education Statistics' Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten (ECLS-K) Cohort. The analytic sample included 1,538 children whose parents reported a language other than English spoken at home to any extent and for whom relevant data were available for both time points. Mantel-Haenszel chi-square tests show that patterns of language use in the home are dynamic, suggesting that such patterns among the growing school-age LM learner population cannot be treated as time-invariant.
AB - This study investigates change in the home language environment of Language Minority (LM) learners between kindergarten and eighth grade, drawing on data from the National Center for Education Statistics' Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten (ECLS-K) Cohort. The analytic sample included 1,538 children whose parents reported a language other than English spoken at home to any extent and for whom relevant data were available for both time points. Mantel-Haenszel chi-square tests show that patterns of language use in the home are dynamic, suggesting that such patterns among the growing school-age LM learner population cannot be treated as time-invariant.
KW - bilingual/bicultural
KW - immigration/immigrants
KW - longitudinal studies
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U2 - 10.3102/0013189X10383168
DO - 10.3102/0013189X10383168
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78651462918
SN - 0013-189X
VL - 39
SP - 545
EP - 546
JO - Educational Researcher
JF - Educational Researcher
IS - 7
ER -