Destination‐Language Proficiency in Cross‐National Perspective: A Study of Immigrant Groups in Nine Western Countries1
Destination‐Language Proficiency in Cross‐National Perspective: A Study of Immigrant Groups in Nine Western Countries1
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跨国视角下的目的地语言熟练程度：对九个西方国家移民群体的研究1
DOI：
10.1086/428931
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
M. Kalmijn
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作者：
Frank van Tubergen;M. Kalmijn
移民的目的地语言能力通常是从单个国家的微观角度进行研究的。在本文中，作者从跨国视角考察了宏观因素的作用。他们认为，三组宏观层面的因素是重要的：移民定居的国家（“目的地”效应），派遣国（“原籍”效应），以及来源国和目的地之间的结合（“环境”或“社区”效应）。作者提出了一种同时观察多个目的地的多个原点组的设计。他们提出了关于语言能力的实质性假设，并用这些假设制定了一系列宏观指标。作者收集并标准化了9个西方国家现有的19项移民调查。运用多层次技术，他们的分析表明，来源地、目的地和环境在移民的语言能力中起着重要作用。
Immigrants’ destination‐language proficiency has been typically studied from a microperspective in a single country. In this article, the authors examine the role of macrofactors in a cross‐national perspective. They argue that three groups of macrolevel factors are important: the country immigrants settle in (“destination” effect), the sending nation (“origin” effect), and the combination between origin and destination (“setting” or “community” effect). The authors propose a design that simultaneously observes multiple origin groups in multiple destinations. They present substantive hypotheses about language proficiency and use them to develop a series of macrolevel indicators. The authors collected and standardized 19 existing immigrant surveys for nine Western countries. Using multilevel techniques, their analyses show that origins, destinations, and settings play a significant role in immigrants’ language proficiency.