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Current research in immigrant communities in Europe reveals that in many cases they are characterized by rapid language shift (e.g. Broeder & Extra 1998, Extra & Gorter 2001). The dominant society s assimilationist pressures, the salience of the dominant language for educational achievement and social integration, a loose connection between ethnic language and identity or a stigmatized identity are some of the factors that lead immigrant parents and/ or their children to abandon the use of the ethnic language. The paper reports on a study of linguistic competence, practices and attitudes of Albanian parents who have emigrated to Greece in the last ten years and whose children attend Greek primary schools. This questionnaire study was conducted in the city of Thessaloniki and the prefecture of Rethymno, Crete in the spring of 2003. It aimed at identifying not only the immigrants practices and attitudes connected to immigrant children s bilingualism but also how these variables interact with each other and with other factors such as the parents degree of Greek language competence and use, their wish to stay in Greece for more than five years, etc.)

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