The Acquisition of Community Speech Norms by Asians Immigrants Learning English as a Second Language: a preliminary study

Adamson H.D.Regan, Vera2009-01-292009-01-291991Studies in Second Language Acquisition; 13(1)http://hdl.handle.net/10315/2503Investigation of Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants' acquisition of the English variable "ing" found that such production was constrained by phonological, grammatical, stylistic, and social factors. (39 references) (Author/CB)enSociolinguistic variationSecond Language VariationESL LearningESLEnglishThe Acquisition of Community Speech Norms by Asians Immigrants Learning English as a Second Language: a preliminary studyArticle