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2 - Coming to the Beautiful Country

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2024

Agnes Weiyun He
Agnes Weiyun He
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Stony Brook
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Chapter 2 uses one first-generation immigrant mother’s narrative as a basis to outline the language background of the family and to explore the construction and the characteristics of the bilingual space at home, as well as the history and the forces behind the shift of linguistic repertoire in the household during the early years of children who are speakers of Chinese as a heritage language.

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Chinese immigrationESLcultural shockinternational studentsintercultural communicationheritage language socializationbilingualismcommunicative strategieslanguage anxietyaccent and identityacculturation
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Voices of Immigration
A Serial Narrative Ethnography of Language Shift
 , pp. 23 - 42
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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