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Michelle Bernice Smith; Margaret Early; Maureen Kendrick – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In this qualitative study, we draw on theory and practice in relation to the concepts of "fixity" and "fluidity" in language education (i.e. the simultaneity of bounded, named languages; and the need to transcend language boundaries). We use data from focus group interviews to investigate the entangled ideological dilemmas…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Swedish, Second Language Learning
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Vesterbacka, Siv – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
Focuses on the analysis of six-year-old Finnish-speaking children's second-language acquisition during their first year of Swedish immersion in kindergarten. (JL)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, Kindergarten
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Sondergaard, Bent – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
Code switching is analyzed as part of a "familylect," which is code switching as it occurs in the spoken language of a multilingual family with four members. Seven different language codes are involved. Through a linguistic and extra-linguistic analysis, an attempt is made to answer three questions connected with code switching: when,…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Danish, Dialects, English (Second Language)
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Stromman, Solveig – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
The alternating and mixed use of Swedish and Finnish and special trade slang in three relatively small firms (employing a total of 678 employees, 40 percent of whom were Swedish-speaking, 56 percent Finnish-speaking, and 4 percent bilingual) in the bilingual city of Vasa, Finland was analyzed. (CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Business Communication, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis