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Norlund Shaswar, Annika – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
International mobility has caused a need for language education where adults can learn the language(s) used in their new country. In Sweden, the language programme SFI (Swedish for immigrants) provides basic second language education for adult immigrants. For those learners who are not yet functionally literate, basic literacy education is…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis
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Karrebaek, Martha Sif; Nergiz, Özgün – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
Although not often discussed, complementary ('mother tongue') classrooms comprise participants who differ substantially in a number of ways. Differences comprise, e.g. participants' orientations to and understandings of the indexicalities of linguistic registers, which may have been brought along from the presupposed country of origin. It has…
Descriptors: Socialization, Classroom Communication, Native Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Zhu, Weihua – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
Little research has focused on extended concurrent speech, unexpected floor taking, or topic switching, since it has been deemed rare (Schegloff 2000. "Overlapping talk and the organization of turn-taking for conversation." "Language in Society" 29(1). 1-63.) or inappropriate (Goldberg 1990." Interrupting the discourse on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Usage, Communities of Practice, Interviews