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Research Findings in Education and Learning

January 24th, 2012

Research in the field of education and learning shows that the mother tongue of the child a good foundation to build on the second language. In addition, it has been shown that only in English politics is often unrecognized impact on education, if speakers of other languages ​​to absorb a negative attitude towards their mother tongue (or language varieties of ethnicity) and culture, which are widespread in society.

The impact of this attitude are evident in this story, families tended to immigrants in the United States to preserve their own language as an important part of their culture. Immigrants are bilingual has always been for two or three generations after immigration, but eventually gave the language of the immigrants as a whole.

Today, immigrants have a stronger preference for speaking of motivation in English and were less for the preservation of their native language, so the conversion to English monolingualism is faster, in most cases two generations. In this context, the English rules seem to be unnecessary, since there is no threat to go the English language by new immigrants and their language orientations.
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