All 3 Uses of
acquisition
in
Do You Speak American?
- The movement sees efforts at bilingual education in schools and government concessions to non-English speakers, such as election ballots in foreign languages, as wrongheaded, because they slow the acquisition of English and hence assimilation.†
Chpt 5
- So the census data do not provide evidence of a massive shift away from English acquisition, the first step in becoming assimilated.†
Chpt 5 *
- But sloppy speech of course is their native language, and so not to do that requires the acquisition of something else.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(acquisition) obtaining possession of something; or the thing possessed