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French-Medium Instruction in Anglophone Canadian Higher Education: The Plurilingual Complexity of Students and Their Instructors
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Marshall, Steve; Moore, Danièle; Himeta, Mariko – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2021
In this article, we analyze the plurilingualism of instructors and their students in a program taught through the medium of French at a multilingual, Anglophone university in Western Canada. We employ the lenses of plurilingualism and plurilingual competence in the analysis of data from a one-year qualitative study of plurilingualism across the…
Descriptors: French, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Chinese Dual-Language Bilingual Education Teachers' Pedagogical and Languaging Practices in American Immersion Schools
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Zhou, Wenying; Li, Guofang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Based on video recordings of five pre-k to grade 4 Chinese dual-language bilingual education (DLBE) teachers' classroom instruction, this article examines the Chinese DLBE teachers' target and first language use and pedagogical moves during their processes of learning to teach in immersion schools in the US. Conversational analyses of classroom…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Discrimination of English and French Orthographic Patterns by Biliterate Children
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Jared, Debra; Cormier, Pierre; Levy, Betty Ann; Wade-Woolley, Lesly – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2013
We investigated whether young English-French biliterate children can distinguish between English and French orthographic patterns. Children in French immersion programs were asked to play a dictionary game when they were in Grade 2 and again when they were in Grade 3. They were shown pseudowords that contained either an English spelling pattern or…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Orthographic Symbols, English
Second Language Acquisition of Spanish Service Industry Requests in an Immersion Context
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Czerwionka, Lori; Cuza, Alejandro – Hispania, 2017
The current study examines English-speaking learners of Spanish and their pragmatic development of request forms during a six-week immersion program in Madrid, Spain. Elicited production and intuition data were analyzed, focusing on personal deictic orientation, directness evidenced by clause type, and the use of "por favor"…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
The Effect of Language Immersion on Second Language Intonation
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Kang, Seokhan – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2013
This study investigated the effect of language immersion in an English-speaking environment on the production of intonational features in L2 English sentences. It was hypothesized that the Korean group who had been immersed in the English language as children would have intonation patterns more similar to native English speakers than a nonimmersed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intonation, Korean, Native Speakers
Pragmatic Development of L2 Spanish Proposals in Planning Talk
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Rose, Marda C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines proposals made during planning talk--a speech act that has received little attention in previous literature--to determine the applicability of the stages of second language (L2) pragmatic development posited by Kasper and Rose (2002). Although Kasper and Rose suggest that formulas play a prominent role in L2 pragmatic…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Immersion Programs