The question of who is and who is not a bilingual is more difficult to answer than it first appears. Bilingualism was long regarded as the equal mastery of two languages, a definition that still prevails in certain glossaries of linguistics. However, today's complex world requires a more exact definition and analysis of the competencies that community members require to interact with speakers o...

Given the growing numbers of bicultural individuals in the United States and around the world, bicultural identity integration (BII) is an important construct that helps researchers to better capture the diversity within this group. In this chapter, we organize and summarize the limited literature on individual differences in bicultural identity, with a special focus on BII. First, we discuss a...

Abstract This comparative study looks into Russian speakers’ acculturation in Finland and Latvia by contrasting their cultural involvement preference Carlson Güler (J Int Migr Integr 19:625–647, 2018. 10.1007/s12134-018-0554-4) with self-reported news media use. Drawing on survey data collected from both countries (N = 224), the findings show that participants scored closer to biculturalism tha...

A range of psychotic manifestations (including auditory hallucinations, delusions, conceptual disorganization, anxiety, and depression) have been reported to occur in either one or all of a patient’s languages. The reasons why one of the patient’s languages may be more affected than others is investigated. Whether a particular language should be used in psychotherapy, and if so, which one, is a...

This study examines how strength of ethnic identity, multiethnic identity, and other indicators of biculturalism relate to the drug use norms of urban American Indian middle school students. The article distinguishes categories of norms that may affect drug use. Regression analysis of self-reports by 434 American Indian seventh graders attending middle schools in a large southwestern U.S. city ...

Hispanic psychology has its roots in ethnic psychology and in cross-cultural psychology. The basic premise is that it is a valuable enterprise both theoretically and empirically to study the behavior of Hispanics. Over the past 25 years, research in Hispanic psychology has given way to a new scholarship or paradigm that calls for the recognition of intragroup variation which values within-group...

On Challenges Faced by Translators of Children’s Literature
 The aim the article was to investigate effect translation solutions applied in Polish V. Garshin’s Lyagushka-puteshestvennica fable on child addressee. starts with an overview characteristic features text recipient (prior knowledge, attitudes and values, limited bilingualism biculturalism), referring them childad dressee consider...

Abstract This article seeks to explain how Aotearoa New Zealand moved from a consensus that the Curriculum (NZC) should grant high degree of autonomy teachers, an emerging view it ought be more prescriptive about content. To do this, takes assemblage approach policy analysis, understanding policies as constantly evolving ‘bundles’ divergent components temporarily woven together. The first explo...

The intricate links between heritage/home language (HL) use and heritage identity of heritage-bilinguals are well established. Less is known about the degree to which their proficiency or acculturation contributes host identities psychological health. present study investigated this with a diverse sample heritage-bilingual students (N = 220; Mage 25.43 years) across first, ‘1.5’ (re...