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Cross-Linguistic Influence, Transfer and Other Kinds of Language Interaction: Evidence for Modularity from the Study of Bilingualism.

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Francis, Norbert – 2003

This paper discusses research on bilingualism, describing how language development proceeds under exceptional circumstances (for example, when processing must be shifted to another modality, and in abnormal development of one kind or another). It examines exceptional bilingualism, focusing on research on deafness (e.g., hearing children of deaf…

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Code Switching (Language), Language Proficiency

An Examination of Written Expression in Bilingual Students'"Non-Academic" Language: Assessment of Sense of Story Structure and Interlinguistic Transfer.

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Francis, Norbert – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2000

Four classes of bilingual children from Grades 3 and 5, speakers of Spanish and Nahuatl, participated in a study of literacy development focused on interlinguistic transfer and the application of narrative schemata as seen in writing samples produced in both languages. Reports on a methodological approach seen to be effective in eliciting…

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries, Linguistic Borrowing