Using achievement tests to measure language assimilation and language bias among immigrant children.

Autor/inn/en	Akresh, Richard; Redstone Akresh, Ilana
Titel	Using achievement tests to measure language assimilation and language bias among immigrant children. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Anwendung von Leistungstests zur Messung von Sprachassimilation und -neigung bei Einwandererkindern.
Quelle	Bonn (2008), 43 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion Paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH. 3532
Beigaben	Tabellen 9; grafische Darstellungen 16
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Test; Kind; Sprachverhalten; Fremdsprache; Mehrsprachigkeit; Muttersprache; Assimilation (Soz); Leistung; Migrant; Nordamerika; USA
Abstract	"We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree and speed of language assimilation, in addition to the potential costs associated with taking a test in one's non-dominant language. We find that U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants are not bilingual as predicted by most language assimilation models but rather are English dominant. English language assimilation occurs at a rapid pace for foreign born children as well; children who arrive in the U.S. at an early age or who have spent more than four years in the U.S. do not benefit from taking the tests in Spanish. Results are robust to a fixed effects specification that controls for household level characteristics constant across siblings." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2009/1