First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning

By Michael L. Cain, Jennifer Dailey-O', Miles Turnbull

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847691951
• ISBN13: 9781847691958
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.2"