International Journal of Bilingual
Education and Bilingualism
Editor: Colin Baker, University of Wales, Bangor
Review Editor: Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University, Philadelpia
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Volume: 4 Number: 3 Page: 159–164
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Development of the First Language is not a Barrier to Second-Language Acquisition: Evidence from Vietnamese Immigrants to the United States
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Anne Nguyen, Fay Shin and Stephen Krashen
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Elementary and middle school children in California who speak Vietnamese as a first language reported high levels of oral competence in Vietnamese and a desire to maintain Vietnamese language and culture.
There was no evidence, however, that the development of the first language was a barrier to second-language acquisition.
© Multilingual Matters 2001
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