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Why bilingual children default to dominant language

My children speak to each other in English even though we raised them bilingual and I feel like our cultural transmission has failed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gravitational pull of societal language dominance threatens the intergenerational preservation of cultural and linguistic heritage.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Second language acquisition theory?”

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