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Llanes, Àngels; Cots, Josep M. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This study compares the language proficiency gains of two groups of students taking a business English course module in a bilingual university in Catalonia (Spain). Whereas one of these groups followed a 'translanguaging' or 'plurilingual' pedagogy, the other followed a strictly monolingual approach. Participants were 54 mostly Catalan/Spanish…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Cots, Josep M.; Nussbaum, Luci – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
The growing presence of children of immigrant families in the public school system in the bilingual region of Catalonia provides us with an opportunity to study how young multilingual and multicultural speakers construct their social competencies and their identity within the specific context of a gate-keeping social institution such as the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Immigrants, English (Second Language)