Effects of Linguistic Distance on Cognitive Skills, Health, and Social Outcomes in Canadian Immigrants
Learning languages is more difficult if they are more distant (dissimilar) from the person's first language. For immigrants, a greater distance between their L1 and official languages of their host country impedes integration. Using microdata from the PIAAC survey in 2012, we quantified the cog...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Political Science |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2022.874195/full |