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Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia; Araújo e Sá, Maria Helena – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
In this chapter, we analyse the co-construction of meaning by university students in romance language (RL) chat rooms, in an online platform focused on multilingual language practice and learning. This communicative situation can best be described through the concept of 'intercomprehension', i.e. a multilingual and multisemiotic communicative…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Computer Mediated Communication, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning
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Moradi, Hamzeh – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014
Depending on the demands of a particular communicative situation, bilingual or multilingual speakers ("bilingualism-multilingualism") will switch between language varieties. Code-switching is the practice of moving between variations of languages in different contexts. In an educational context, code-switching is defined as the practice…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Indo European Languages, Verbs, English (Second Language)