Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ581922
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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Bilingual Storytelling: Code Switching, Discourse Control, and Learning Opportunities.
de Mejia, Anne-Marie
TESOL Journal, v7 n6 p4-10 Win 1998
Alternating between languages in the construction of stories offers students creative opportunities for bilingual learning. Describes how a storyteller can code switch to tell stories to children who are becoming bilingual and presents an example from early-immersion classrooms in Colombia, discussing code switching and discourse control, and noting implications for classroom practice. (SM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language), Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Story Telling, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Colombia
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