Hi Language,

Harold Schiffman has found something of interest to you at Scoop.co.nz.

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1408/S00053.htm
Linguist&#x2019;s concern at heritage language report
Monday, 11 August 2014, 12:08 pm
Press Release: Massey University

August 11, 2014
Linguist&#x2019;s concern at heritage
language report
New migrants should be supported
to speak their own language to ensure their children develop
a strong cultural identity, says a Massey University
linguist critical of a government report on the
subject.
Dr Arianna Berardi-Wiltshire says a recent
Internal Affairs report, Language and Integration in New
Zealand, gives the wrong message by emphasising a
negative correlation between maintaining a heritage language
[mother tongue] and gaining proficiency in English. 
[....]


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>>From Harold Schiffman

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