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How Childhood Languages Shape Future Language Use and Cultural Orientation
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Heredia, Roberto; Cieslicka, Anna – Multicultural Education Review, 2020
In this paper, we investigate the effect that parents' language use (English, Spanish-English or Spanish) had on self-perceived proficiency, frequency of use, language anxiety, code-switching and cultural orientation of 206 Spanish-English bilinguals and multilinguals who were students in Texas where there is a strong presence of Spanish, the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Parent Child Relationship, English, Spanish
Self-Reported Frequency of Swearing in English: Do Situational, Psychological and Sociobiographical Variables Have Similar Effects on First and Foreign Language Users?
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
An analysis of data collected from 2347 users of English on their self-reported swearing behaviour in English revealed significant higher values for the 1159 native English (L1) users than for the 1165 English foreign language (LX) users. Parallel analyses on the data of the L1 and LX users revealed that the interlocutor effect was slightly…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Lexical Inventions: French Interlanguage as L2 versus L3.
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Applied Linguistics, 1998
A study investigated "lexical inventions" in the advanced oral French of 39 native Dutch-speakers, 32 of whom had French as a second language (L2) and English as a third language (L3), with the others having L2 English and L3 French. A higher proportion of lexical inventions produced by French L2 speakers derived from non-standard use of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Dutch, English, French