Английский язык

(2001) states that using a minority language in a predominantly monolingual culture and society could be shifted over a period of ten years. However, it should be mentioned that language shifting may differ for different individuals and different groups. Migrant families are example to this language shifting process. The research involves in extensive work in the field, called fieldwork, gathering fruitful data. As Wolcott (1996) comments, "They researchers establish what a stranger would have to know in order to understand what is going on here or, more challenging still, what a stranger would have to know in order to be able to participate in a meaningful way" (p. 6). The ethnographer should be good at dealing with fieldwork issues (Creswell, 1997). Thus, an ethnographic research will enable me to investigate how children of Crimean maintain their mother tongue or shift to L2 in family and school environment.
The design will not follow the (sequential) phases of data collection and data analysis. Rather, data collection and data analysis will be at the same time (concurrently) (Creswell, 2003).

2. 3 Sample
The research will be based on school context with comparison out-of-school context and home context. Using different data sources of information this triangulation (Creswell, 2003) can result in well-validated and substantiated findings.
It is considered to recruit 20 participants. Among these participants ten of them are children from secondary school whose parents must be native speaker of Crimean. And, ten parents of those children will be involved in collecting data, in order to find out if there is any influence of parents to childrens use of L1 and L2. The proportion of male and female will be randomly selected.