Bilingualism and the Academic Achievement of First- and Second-Generation Asian Americans
Accommodation with Or without Assimilation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4521990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Mouw (0000-0002-6657-1565, University of Michigan), Yu Xie (0000-0002-4832-3453, University of Michigan) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 232 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2657529 |
| OpenAlex | W2128729963 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 99 |
| References cited | 37 |
Recent scholarship claims that bilingualism has a positive effect on the academic achievement of immigrant children. According to this perspective, growing up speaking two languages is beneficial because it stimulates cognitive development and allows immigrants a means of resisting unwanted assimilation. Immigrant children who are fluent bilinguals can use their native-language ability to maintain beneficial aspects of their ethnic culture while accommodating to the linguistic demands of an English-speaking society. Using data on first- and second-generation Asian American students from the 1988 National Educational Longitudinal Study, we test for these hypothesized effects of bilingualism. We find no evidence that bilingualism per se has a positive effect on achievement. Instead, speaking a native language with parents has a temporary positive effect if the parents are not proficient in English. These results indicate that the academic importance of bilingualism is transitional: The educational benefits of delaying linguistic assimilation exist only before immigrant parents achieve a moderate level of English-language proficiency
Accommodation · Assimilation (phonology · Bilingual education · Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · First language · Immigration · Language proficiency · Linguistics · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Pedagogy · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
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| Citations per year | 3,96 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 95 |