Sociolinguistic significance of languages spoken at home and English speaking ability for the U.S. language policy


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The article discusses the change in the number of US residents who speak English and a language other than English at home in the late XX – early XXI century. The author describes the causes of the changes, trends they show and their impact on the status of English at the moment.

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I. I. Skachkova

Volgograd branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy
and Public Administration

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Email: morenovsv@ssau.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1825-0097

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