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McCarthy, Kathleen M.; Skoruppa, Katrin – Child Development, 2023
This study investigated the influence of first language (L1) phonology on second language (L2) early reading skills in Sylheti-English bilinguals (N = 58; 48% girls; British Bangladeshi) and their monolingual-English peers (N = 43; 45% girls; 96% White British, 4% multiethnic British) in a diaspora context. Language-specific phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Phonology, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sabaté Dalmau, Maria – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
From a critical sociolinguistic perspective, this article investigates the written linguistic practices of 20 labor migrants from heterogeneous backgrounds who organized their life trajectories in an "ethnic" call shop in a marginal neighborhood near Barcelona. This was a late capitalist institution informally providing the undocumented…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Interviews, Urban Areas, Sociolinguistics