Subtractive Bilingualism: The Case of Francoâ€Americans in Maine's St John Valley
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Title
Subtractive Bilingualism: The Case of Francoâ€Americans in Maine's St John Valley
Description
Presentation of research on "ethnolinguistic vitality" among French-English bilingual students in the schools of Maine's St. John River Valley. Data supporting the trend there toward "subtractive bilingualism," where the use of one language is preferred at the expense of another. From the author: "The study, carried out in two school districts of the St John Valley in the state of Maine in the Unites States, compares three subgroups of francophones and anglophones on measures of the strength of their network of linguistic contacts in French and English, their communicative and cognitive-academic linguistic proficiency in these languages, their vitality beliefs concerning the francophone and anglophone communities, the strength of their ethnolinguistic identities and their degree of use of French and English in various social domains. The results, which are interpreted within the framework of a macroscopic model of the determinants of additive and subtractive bilingualism, are very conclusive in showing that bilingualism for these Franco-American students is strongly subtractive."
Creator
Landry, Rodrigue
Allard, Réal
Date
1992
Language
en
Type
Journal Article
Coverage
1992; St. John River Valley, Maine
Contribution Form
Zotero
DOI
10.1080/01434632.1992.9994513
ISSN
0143-4632
Issue
6
Pages
515-544
Publication Title
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Volume
13