ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the preparation, administration and findings of the other community-based survey carried out by the Linguistic Minorities Project (LEA). It considers some of the theoretical implications of the findings. The chapter includes a more systematic account of the distribution of these varied organisational structures. It presents details of the 'mother tongue' classes and schools which the author found in Coventry and Bradford in 1981 and in Haringey in 1982. It describes that the Coventry and Bradford interviewers also played a major part in the author's revision of the questionnaires. The chapter illustrates that the majority of the mother tongue classes in the areas taken as a whole had no support from the LEA for teachers' salaries or accommodation at the time of the survey. It argues that there are two institutions which have a particularly important role in the transmission of minority language skills over time: the family and the minority organisation.
