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Czech and Slovak Mothers Struggling to Maintain Children’s Heritage Language in North Carolina

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Immigration and Education in North Carolina

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This study offers insight into heritage language maintenance among an understudied population of Czech and Slovak immigrants in North Carolina. Due to their relatively low numbers and geographical dispersal, Czechs and Slovaks in North Carolina find themselves in situations where neither an ethnic community nor a language school is available to support heritage language maintenance.

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  1. Marta Mccabe
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  1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

    Xue Lan Rong

  2. University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA

    Jeremy Hilburn

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Mccabe, M. (2016). Czech and Slovak Mothers Struggling to Maintain Children’s Heritage Language in North Carolina. In: Rong, X.L., Hilburn, J. (eds) Immigration and Education in North Carolina. Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-809-9_11

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