Module 1: Ancillary Links, Resources and/or Materials

1. Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States.

            The purpose of this link is to provide information on the statistics of immigrants in the United States and the historical numbers of immigrants in the country.

2. New Census Bureau Report Analyzes Nation’s Linguistic Diversity: Population speaking a language other than English at home increases by 140 percent in the past three decades.

          The purpose of providing this link is to show the current rates of non-English languages used at home in the United States.

3.  Language Maintenance and Loss along the US-Mexico Border.

           With this link, visitors of the website can see an example of how language shift occurs. This link provides a presentation on how Spanish language has been lost along the US-Mexico Border.

4. Language Maintenance and Shift by Kim Potowski.

           The purpose of providing this link is to show a book that describes language shift and the factors that influence the intergenerational process of language shift.

5. The Language Shift by Marty Abbott

           This purpose of this link is to offer information about how language shift currently is taking place in the United States, according to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Marty Abbott.

6. The Geography of Language Ahift: A Quantitative Cemetery Study in the Texas Czech Community.

           This link provides a journal article that describes the geography of language shift in ethnic immigrant communities in Texas. The purpose of this link is to give an example of how the geographic patterns of language shift over time.