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Takeuchi, Jae DiBello – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
At a press conference in Japan, an L2-Japanese reporter questioned an L1-Japanese politician. Although the press conference was conducted in Japanese, the politician code-switched to English during their exchange. The reporter challenged the politician's code-switching; a confrontational exchange ensued. The reporter's reaction depicts the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Japanese, Aggression
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Oihana Leonet; Eider Saragueta; Eli. Arocena – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
The objective of the study is to explore the possibilities of pedagogical translanguaging as a strategy to develop critical language awareness among a group of primary school students from the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain). The study is part of a broader ethnographically based research project, which was developed over two school years in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
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Moradi, Hamzeh; Chen, Jianbo – SAGE Open, 2022
The socio-psychological variables that affect bilinguals' choices of code-switching (CS) and code-mixing (CM) as a verbal strategy make prediction of their occurrence almost impossible. This research investigates the social motivations and socio-pragmatic aspects of Chinese-English CS/CM among Chinese undergraduate students. Using a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Chinese, English (Second Language)
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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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Angelo, Ria – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
This paper deals with the relationship between neoliberalism and communicative language teaching in language-in-education policy. Neoliberalism, or the deregulation of state based on meritocracy, or equal competition, gives rise to paradoxical discourses. On the one hand, sociolinguistic superdiversity shows us the unprecedented mixing and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Language of Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning
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Ezeh, Nnenna Gertrude; Umeh, Ifeoma Ann; Anyanwu, Esther Chikaodi – English Language Teaching, 2022
The primary goal of language teaching is to afford learners, proficiency in communicating in the target language, self-development as well as intercultural understanding of languages in the learning process. The teacher is therefore charged with the task of selecting appropriate strategies to effectively achieve his pedagogic goals, one of which…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rafi, Abu Saleh Mohammad; Morgan, Anne-Marie – Classroom Discourse, 2023
This study explored the role of translanguaging pedagogies in navigating bilingual students' tensions and struggles in an academic writing class of an English medium private university in Bangladesh. Data were collected through classroom observation, a pedagogical intervention, a focus group discussion with six students and a semi-structured…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Van Viege, Saskia; Lau, Sunny Man Chu – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
This Perspectives article proposes a renewed vision of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) through a translanguaging (TL) stance, grounded in critical sociolinguistic inquiry and embodied practice. A TL theory of language asserts an activist agenda to dismantle mono/lingualism, inviting a more dynamic and expansive view of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Byrd Clark, Julie S.; Roy, Sylvie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
This article puts forth new ways of thinking about "becoming multilingual" in transnational and contemporary times by investigating the significance of multilingualism for multilingual student teachers enrolled in French language teacher education programs within the provinces of Alberta and Ontario. As more diversity is present in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, French, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Huang, Jing – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper examines diasporic language ecology based on a sociolinguistic study of a Chinese complementary school (CCS) in Birmingham, England. The study applies a historical perspective to investigate local multilingual practices in relation to language ideology and identity. The discussion in this paper draws on "heteroglossia" to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Community Schools, Heritage Education, Multilingualism
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Prada, Josh – Classroom Discourse, 2019
The present study explores how translanguaging serves as vehicle to (help) re-configure linguistic attitudinal and ideological structures in a university Spanish course for heritage speakers. Specifically, it focuses on the links between exposure to (and engagement in) classroom translanguaging and the participants' challenging of traditional…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Attitudes, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage
Alhourani, Alaa Q. – Online Submission, 2018
Besides to the communicative function of language there is the social function which shows the role that language plays in society. This can be noted in sociolinguistics through code switching. The main purpose of the case study is to investigate and understand the functions of Arabic-English code switching among the bilingual Saudi speakers in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Case Studies, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language)
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Paquet-Gauthier, Myriam; Beaulieu, Suzie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
For the past three decades, momentum has gathered in favour of a multilingual turn in second language acquisition research and teaching. "Multicompetence" has been proposed to replace "nativeness" and "monolingualism" to measure L2 learners' success. This proposed shift has not made its way into L2 teaching settings.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
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Dowling, Tessa; Krause, Lara – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
A Grade 4 English language teacher in a township school in Cape Town, South Africa, in her quest to equip learners with new target language resources, is not held back by the perceived boundaries dividing named languages. Instead she employs language in creative and goal-directed ways that we believe have not received enough focused linguistic…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Slum Schools, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Kontio, Janne; Sylvén, Liss Kerstin – Language Learning Journal, 2015
The present article deals with language choice as communicative strategies in the language learning environment of an English-medium content and language integrated learning (CLIL) workshop at an auto mechanics class in a Swedish upper secondary school. The article presents the organisation and functions of language alternations (LAs) which are…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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