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First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning
Overview
This volume offers fresh perspectives on a controversial issue in applied linguistics and language teaching by focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. It includes new work by both new and established scholars in educational scholarship, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics, as well as in a variety of languages, countries, and educational contexts. Through its focus at the intersection of theory, practice, curriculum and policy, the book demands a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient and aspiring bilinguals do naturally, and as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual code-switching.
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- ISBN-13: 9781847691958
- ISBN-10: 1847691951
- Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
- Publish Date: August 2009
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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