Study title

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...