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Kotsinas, Ulla-Britt – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Posits two hypotheses arising from the great immigration to Sweden and the immigrants' use and learning of Swedish: (1) Swedish as used by immigrant children may show certain features, related to a creolization process; and (2) the Swedish language may in future show signs of influence from the varieties used by persons with immigrant background.…
Descriptors: Children, Dialects, Immigrants, Interlanguage
Mackey, Allison – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1994
This paper reports on a study of the efficiency of interactive tasks at eliciting targeted morpho-syntactic structures from child speakers of English as a Second Language (ESL). Two groups of subjects between 7 and 10 years of age were examined, one group with various first language backgrounds, and a second which used Spanish as their first…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries