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Erling, Elizabeth J.; Brummer, Michael; Foltz, Anouschka – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study provides a counter-narrative to commonly found deficit discourses about LX English learners from migration backgrounds in Europe. A questionnaire was conducted with 108 middle school students and 100 high school students in Austria in a context which has been relatively unexplored: non-elite, linguistically diverse small-town schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Williams, Sarah; Hammarberg, Bjorn – Applied Linguistics, 1998
Presents results from ongoing research about non-adapted language switches, highlighting a longitudinal study of an adult learner of third-language (L3) Swedish with first-language (L1) English and second-language (L2) German. The study is based on 844 non-adapted language switches. Researchers identified four types of switches. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), German, Language Processing
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Cekaite, Asta; Aronsson, Karin – Applied Linguistics, 2005
Within '"communicative language teaching," "natural" language has had a privileged position, and a focus on form has been seen as something inauthentic or as something that is inconsequential for learning (for a critique, see Kramsch and Sullivan 1996; Cook 1997). Yet in the present study of an immersion classroom, it was found that children with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Language Teachers, Code Switching (Language)
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Poulisse, Nanda; Bongaerts, Theo – Applied Linguistics, 1994
In a study of bilingual speech production, data were collected from 771 unintentional language switches by 45 Dutch learners of English at 3 different proficiency levels. One finding was that the occurrence of language switch was related to learner proficiency in English. (Contains 40 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dutch