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This paper reports the result of a research carried out in the summer of 2001 among parents from Mainland China, who have been living and working in the UK for the minimum length of three years. An experimental attempt was made to investigate these parents’ attitude towards preserving their children’s native language in an English context and to illuminate the link between language and identity...

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