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Loakes, Deborah; Moses, Karin; Wigglesworth, Gillian; Simpson, Jane; Billington, Rosey – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
Indigenous children growing up in the remote regions of Australia live in multilingual communities which are often undergoing rapid language shift. In these communities, children are exposed to a range of language input, including the traditional language of the area, a local creole and Standard Australian English. The extent to which the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Linguistic Input, Creoles, Standard Spoken Usage
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Del Torto, Lisa M. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
This paper explores interpreting in three-generational Italian-English bilingual families as a complex language brokering activity. Recent studies approach non-professional interpreting as language brokering in which bilinguals (often children) interpret for non-bilinguals (adults) in institutional settings (Hall 2004; Valdes 2003). These studies…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Children, Italian, English