2011年3月7日星期一

Bilingualism class: takeaway of the day

Gafaranga's take on Belgium and Canada's language landscape: Conflict is a social motivation for persistent bilingualism and language maintenance.
When consensus is eventually formed, language shift towards monolingualism will be very likely to occur...

My take : Language shift is probably inevitable but language shift towards monolingualism is preventable!  

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