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Direct linkSpezzini, Susan – International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 2004
This investigation of English immersion learners explored processes of learning English, patterns of language use, and levels of comprehensibility among 34 predominantly Spanish-speaking 12th graders at the American School of Asuncion in Asuncion, Paraguay. The analysis of data from language learning histories, group interviews, perceived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Language Patterns, Social Psychology
McClure, Erica – IDEAL, 1989
Compares patterns of subject position pronominalization and zero anaphora in English in stories written by monolingual U.S. students and bilingual Mexican students at grades 6 and 12. The possibility of both sentential and discourse level transfer effects resulting from the fact that Spanish allows subject deletion is investigated as is the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
