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Keim, Inken – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2009
This paper begins by looking at responses to Bernstein in Germany in the 1970s that criticized his notions of class difference in sociolinguistic codes. As part of a re-examination of Bernstein's ideas, the paper goes on to look at the current communicative situation in German education where urban schools have many second-generation immigrant…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Peer Groups, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Kuhberg, Heinz – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1991
In a study of whether second-language (L2) acquisition is the mirror image of L2 attrition, 2 Turkish girls aged 7 and 9 were observed for 15-20 months to determine their language attrition upon returning to Turkey after living in Germany. Findings were compared with those of a Turkish boy whose L2 acquisition had previously been studied in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, German