TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Green, Colin P.
AU  - Haaland, Kristine Bekkeheien
AU  - Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag
        TI  - Immigrant Peers and Foreign Language Acquisition
        PY  - 2022/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15746
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15746
        AB  - Immigrants change the school environment. A focus has been on negative spillovers on native students' educational attainment. Yet, exposure to immigrant peers has the potential for a wider range of effects. This paper examines effects on foreign language acquisition focusing on Norway. In Norway all students are taught, and are assessed, in English from an early age. We demonstrate that exposure to native English-speaking peers increase Norwegian students' English language skills. We provide evidence that these spillover effects likely occur outside of the classroom. They are solely present for English language skills and provide evidence of positive spillovers from immigrant diversity in schools that is missing from the existing literature. Our results have implications for the wider social effects of immigration and how foreign languages are taught in schools.
        KW  - immigration
KW  - English language attainment
KW  - educational attainment
        ER  -