Bilingualism and Educational Achievements: The Impact of the Language Used at Home by Tatar School Students in Tatarstan, Russia

Autor/inn/en	Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio; Alòs i Font, Hèctor
Titel	Bilingualism and Educational Achievements: The Impact of the Language Used at Home by Tatar School Students in Tatarstan, Russia
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 38 (2017) 6, S.545-557 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2016.1213847
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Academic Achievement; Turkic Languages; Russian; Language Usage; Family Environment; Secondary School Students; Ethnic Groups; Grades (Scholastic); Regression (Statistics); Family Characteristics; Peer Groups; Gender Differences; Literature; Chemistry; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Physics; Geometry; Foreign Countries; Bilingual Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Schulleistung; Turkish; Türkisch; Russisch; Sprachgebrauch; Familienmilieu; Sekundarschüler; Ethnie; Notenspiegel; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group; Geschlechterkonflikt; Literatur; Chemie; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Physik; Geometrie; Ausland; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht
Abstract	This article empirically studies the impact of bilingualism on educational achievements. This relationship has been thoroughly studied in a number of countries around the world, but not in Russia. We used a sample of 709 ethnic Tatar school students aged 15-16 (in the ninth grade) in the spring of the year 2010. We found a positive significant effect on school grades based on logistic regressions, and controlling for family background characteristics, school characteristics, psychological attributes, health issues, peers, gender, and the impact of the capital city Kazan. Oral bilingual children, who use Tatar language at home, are more likely to obtain the highest grades in literature and chemistry classes, and they have lower probabilities of obtaining the lowest grades in Russian language, literature, geometry, and physics. We did not find negative impacts on school grades due to the use of Tatar at home. Therefore, we found evidence in favour of bilingualism and against the assumption of Russian policymakers that bilingualism threatens the knowledge of Russian. (As Provided).
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