Minority language development in early childhood: a study of siblings acquiring Bosnian and English in Ireland

This paper considers issues faced by multilingual families in supporting their children’s acquisition of minority home languages. These include the challenges posed by majority language dominance in society and education, limited opportunities for minority language input and interaction, and possib...

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Main Author: Bronagh Ćatibušić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics 2019-03-01
Series:Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/75