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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Johnson-Weiner, Karen M. |
| Title, Analytic | Community expectations and second language acquisition: English as a second language in a Swartzentruber Amish school |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 1993 |
| Volume ID | 28 |
| Location in Work | 107-117 |
| Abstract | The Swartzentruber Amish parochial school near Kendrew Corners, outside of Rensselaer Falls, New York, is typical of Old Order Amish parochial schools. A one-room building flanked by outhouses and heated by a wood stove, it is attended by approximately fifteen students in grades one through eight. The Kendrew Corners school serves only five or six families. In eight years of schooling, the children attending the Kendrew Corners school will acquire English well enough to interact and compete successfully with native speakers in an "English" environment. Very different approach than mainstream schools to second language learning, yet they are successful. Their motivation is different and unusual. It is to preserve a way of life. Indirect contrast to linguists' views of the relationship between acculturation and language acquisition, languages may be acquired as barriers to acculturation are raised |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Schools/ Education/ Ethnic identity/ Amish |