Language acculturation among the children of immigrants in Spain at the end of the prodigious decade of immigration

In Spain, few studies have analyzed how children of immigrants combine the acquisition of Spanish with the maintenance/acquisition of heritage languages. This paper moves into that direction by exploiting data from a survey conducted at the end of the so-calledprodigious decade of immigration in Spa...

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Autores: Álvarez-Sotomayor, Alberto, Gutiérrez-Rubio, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/59481
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59481
https://dx.doi.org/10.37536/LYM.15.2.2023.xxxx
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Acculturation
Immigration
Language
Heritage language.
Spain
Aculturación
Inmigración
Lengua
Lenguas de herencia
España
Lingüística
Sociología
Linguistics
Sociology
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Sumario:In Spain, few studies have analyzed how children of immigrants combine the acquisition of Spanish with the maintenance/acquisition of heritage languages. This paper moves into that direction by exploiting data from a survey conducted at the end of the so-calledprodigious decade of immigration in Spain. We conduct cluster andbivariate analyses to analyze the distribution of children immigrants across the four types of language acculturation resulting from this conjunction. Competent bilingualism was the most frequent type,followed by monolingual assimilation. Yet, 45% of the sample didnot fall into competent bilingualism. Therefore, the bilingual poten-tial of these youth was not being exploited. Multivariate analysesshow that the odds of falling into one type of acculturation or another are affected by age on arrival in Spain and language use preference. Youths with a Chinese background were the ones who presented the most problematic situation in terms of linguistic integration into the host society.