Table of Contents
Orientations in language planning / Richard Ruâiz -- Understanding the American linguistic mosaic : a historical overview of language maintenance and language shift / Jean Molesky -- Language minorities in the United States in the 1980s : the evidence from the 1980 census / Dorothy Waggoner -- Language situation of Mexican Americans / Guadalupe Valdâes -- Language situation of Puerto Ricans / Ana Celia Zentella -- Language situation of Cuban Americans / Ofelia Garcâia, Ricardo Otheguy -- Language situation of Chinese Americans / Sau-ling Cynthia Wong -- Language situation of Filipino Americans / Rosita Galang -- Language situation of Korean Americans / Bok-Lim Kim -- Language situation of Vietnamese Americans / Chuong Hoang Chung.