ABSTRACT
Immigrant children and adolescents often acquire the new language faster and accept the new norms and values more easily than their parents, so that the parents turn to them for assistance in understanding the new language, practices, and mores. The aim of the present research was to investigate the relations among language brokering experiences, perceptions of parental competence, perceived pressure to assimilate into the new society, and feelings of self-efficacy and self-esteem among immigrant adolescents and young adults in Israel. The former Soviet Union (FSU) immigrant group is the largest immigrant population residing in Israel. In a study on FSU adolescents in Israel, language brokering was associated with feelings of burden when brokering for parents. The Language Brokering Scale was created on the basis of the scales assessing translation among immigrant adolescents in the United States. Research on language brokering among immigrant youth has reported both positive and negative emotional and adjustment correlates.
