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Selinker, Larry; Baumgartner-Cohen, Beatrice – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Addresses the principles underlying the merging of interlanguages in multiple-language acquisition. The article claims that there is an "interlanguage logic" in multiple- language acquisition and that one can see the structure of the basic learning strategy in interlanguage creation: "interlingual identification." (seven…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Development, College Students, Foreign Countries
Duran, Luisa – Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students, 1994
Assists teachers involved in bilingual instruction in improving their understanding of two aspects of bilingual development: interlanguage and of code-switching. Both are natural and creative outgrowths of being bilingual, i.e., alternative forms created by the cognitive/conceptual synthesis of two languages. (30 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes
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Boeschoten, Hendrik E.; Verhoeven, Ludo Th. – Language Learning, 1987
Data on Dutch-Turkish language-mixing behavior of Turkish children growing up in The Netherlands are presented and analyzed. While functional characteristics of the children's language-mixing were compatible with models from earlier research, structural analysis suggests no universality of surface structure constraint rules for sentence-internal…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Code Switching (Language)
Dam, Phap – 2001
Language educators find two kinds of errors in the interlanguages of language learners: developmental and interference. While developmental errors reflect a normal pattern of development common among all language learners, interference errors are caused by the learners' native languages. This paper deals with a number of die-hard types of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Monographs on pragmatics and language learning include: "Do We All Apologize the Same?--An Empirical Study on the Act of Apologizing by Spanish Speakers Learning English" (Montserrat Mir); "Conversational Openings in Kiswahili: The Pragmatic Performance of Native and Non-Native Speakers" (Alwiya S. Omar); "Experimental and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Traits