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Peer reviewedStromman, Solveig – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
The alternating and mixed use of Swedish and Finnish and special trade slang in three relatively small firms (employing a total of 678 employees, 40 percent of whom were Swedish-speaking, 56 percent Finnish-speaking, and 4 percent bilingual) in the bilingual city of Vasa, Finland was analyzed. (CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Business Communication, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis
Elo, Anja – 1985
A study of the interlanguage of bilinguals and multilinguals compared the oral French proficiency of 20 native Swedish-speaking and 20 Finnish-speaking university students as evidenced in error patterns in oral tests. With the exception of phonological and phonetic errors in pronunciation, errors were classified by word class (article, noun,…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Download full textLuukka, Minna-Riitta, Ed.; Salla, Sigrid, Ed.; Dufva, Hannele, Ed. – 1998
The papers included in this yearbook of the Finnish Society of Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) were presented at the 1998 AFinLA conference "Linguistics and Finland: Crossing the Gulf." Papers are in Finnish, Estonian, or English, but all have accompanying English abstracts. The topics discussed in the papers include the following: speed…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Electronic Mail, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
