Language acquisition as a window to social integration among Russian language minority children in Germany and Israel

Language acquisition and ethnic identity development. Language
proficiency and language use.

Themes: Children(first wave): Performance in Russian language, and L2
(Geman / Hebrew) language tests; preposition imitation; inflection
imitation; complex imitation; sentence completion; nonword repetition;
case task; noun task; verb task; SSV (German standardized language
test); Goralnik (Hebrew standardized language test).

Interpersonal communication networks (3C); language preferences (4C);
attitudes toward people and languages (5C); child ethnolinguistic
identity (6C); degree of use of Russian and German / Hebrew (L2) (7C);
child proficiency self-rating, Part A - overall rating of proficiency
(8C); child proficiency self-rating, Part B - proficiency of oral
communication (8C).

Parents (first wave): Language history; different educational
frameworks of the child; contact with the country of origin;
interpersonal communication networks (3P); language preferences (4P);
attitudes toward use of Russian by child (5P); ethnolinguistic identity
(6P); assessment of child´s ethnolinguistic identity;
evaluation of child´s proficiency (8P); overall rating of proficiency,
rating of Russian, rating of L2; oral communication proficiency in
Russian/Hebrew.

Demography: Child´s date of birth; age (months); child was born in
Germany/Israel; child´s country of origin; child´s birth order in the
family; number of children in the family; sibling 1; sibling 1 (age, in
years); sibling 2; sibling 2 (age, in years); sibling 3; sibling 3
(age, in years); mother´s name; father´s name; interviewed parent´s age
(in years); mother´s length of residence in Germany / Israel (in
years); father´s length of residence in Germany / Israel (in years);
mother´s place of residence before immigration; father´s place of
residence before immigration; mother´s profession; mother work status;
mother´s current occupation; father´s profession; father work status;
father´s current occupation; language/s mother uses at work; language/s
father uses at work; religiosity; family status.

Children (second wave): Self-labeling of identity; degree of use of
Russian and German/Hebrew (L2); importance of speaking Russian or L2;
child proficiency self-rating; personal perception - birthday party;
personal perception - desert island; attitudes to people and languages.