Advances in the Study of Bilingualism

(Chris Devlin) #1

124 Part 3: Bilingual Language Use


Table 6.3

Spanish-English participants

File

Speaker Age Gender Language

used at home

Age of acquisition of Spanish

Age of acquisition of English

Time spent living in USA

Education completed

Primary school language

Secondary school language

National identity

Zeledon1

AME

26

Female Spanish

2 yrs or

younger

Secondary

school

7 years

Undergraduate

Spanish

Bilingual

Venezuelan

Zeledon1

CAR

21

Female Spanish and

English

2 yrs or

younger

2 yrs or

younger

21 years

Secondary

school

English

English

American

Sastre1

KEV

57

Male

Spanish

2 yrs or

younger

Secondary

school

47 years

Secondary

school

Spanish

English

Cuban

Sastre1

SOF

44

Female Spanish

2 yrs or

younger

Primary

school

18 years

Postgraduate

English

English

Cuban

Herring10 PAI

33

Female Spanish

2 yrs or

younger

2 yrs or

younger

33 years

Secondary

school

English

English

Cuban-

American

Herring10 SAR

34

Female Spanish

2 yrs or

younger

4 yrs or

younger

34 years

Undergraduate En

glish

English

Cuban-

American
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