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Migrant Children's Language, Parental and Peer Language Environment, and Their Implications in the Australian Intercultural Context.

Rado, Marta; Foster, Lois – 1985

A study of some features of the language usage of nonnative English speakers focused on global communicative competence and the use of text-building devices. Subjects were the primary-school-age children of eight native Italian-, Greek-, and Macedonian-speaking migrant parents and a matched set of native-English-speaking classmates. The language…

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Connected Discourse