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Thompson, Mertel E. – 1986
Jamaican Creole-speaking college students find it difficult to switch to standard English for school-related tasks. At the composition level, many Jamaican students still experience problems with higher order concerns such as a organization, unity, and coherence. With regard to lower order concerns, three types of writing miscues are prevalent:…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Code Switching (Language), College Freshmen, Creoles
Hussein, Riyad Fayez; Shorrab, Ghazi A. – IRAL, 1993
The notion of code-switching among Arabic-English bilinguals is examined. Various syntactic constraints are delineated that govern this phenomenon, the susceptibility of particular sentence constituents to switching, and the determination of the matrix language in their linguistic performance. (Contains 10 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language)
