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Pittman, Iulia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
This case study investigates the bilingual and trilingual codeswitching patterns of two multilinguals who grew up in a Hungarian-Romanian two-language family in Transylvania, and whose bilingual codeswitching changed into trilingual codeswitching after they moved to North America. An analysis of the speakers' discourse reveals the amounts of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Background
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Cots, Josep M.; Nussbaum, Luci – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
The growing presence of children of immigrant families in the public school system in the bilingual region of Catalonia provides us with an opportunity to study how young multilingual and multicultural speakers construct their social competencies and their identity within the specific context of a gate-keeping social institution such as the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Immigrants, English (Second Language)