Prof. CHEUNG Yuet-Wah2018-01-082018-01-081981Sociological Focus, Jan 1981, vol. 14(1), pp. 33-48.0038-0237http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/4911This paper examines the effects of parents an ethnic language retention by children in five Chinese communities in urban Canada Parents' direct promotion of ethnic language is found to explain 44 percent of the total variance of children's language retention, indicating that the family is an important language retaining agent. Parents' direct promotion is related positively to their ethnic community involvement and negatively to their knowledge of English/French. Surprisingly, parents' ethnic identification and their length of time in Canada have no significant relationships with the above variables, suggesting that, among Canadian-Chinese parents, ethnic identification is not a determinant of ethnic life, and their levels of assimilation have remained rather stable.enPeer Reviewed Journal Article