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Family Language Policies, Reported Language Use and Proficiency in Russian-Hebrew Bilingual Children in Israel
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Altman, Carmit; Burstein Feldman, Zhanna; Yitzhaki, Dafna; Armon Lotem, Sharon; Walters, Joel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The relationship between family language policy (FLP) and language choice, language use, proficiency in Russian and Hebrew, codeswitching (CS) and linguistic performance was studied in Russian-speaking immigrant parents and their Russian-Hebrew bilingual preschool children. By means of Glaser's Grounded Theory, the content of sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Russian, Semitic Languages
Discourse Patterns and Fieldwork Strategies in Urban Settings: Some Methodological Problems for Researchers in Bilingual Communities.
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Milroy, Lesley; And Others – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
Contributions of the methodological procedures and principles offered by Labov and Gumperz are evaluated, especially regarding the problem of observer effect in community-level investigations of linguistic minorities. The need for accountability and openness in data collection and analysis procedures is emphasized. (39 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
A Lexical-Semantic and Syntactic-Grammatical Analysis of Zambian English: Towards a "Meaning-to-Grammar Hypothesis" of Classroom Second Language Instruction.
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Banda, Felix – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
The intuitions and reasoned judgments of second-language learners of English were compared on a number of semantic and syntactic phenomena in the language. Because scores on the semantic tasks were higher than on syntactic tasks, it is assumed that classroom instruction should follow the same route. (24 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: African Languages, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Linguistic Performance