Search results for "bilingual"

Multiethnic Japanese-English Bilinguals' Meal Time Talk

2014

This study employs sequential conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis to codeswitching multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual Japanese-English speakers. The research examines how participants accomplish social actions and goals such as teasing, planning schedules, complaining about family members, and being friends. In doing these social actions, transportable ethnic, linguistic, and cultural identities become emergent. Hence, this research shows instances of linguistic, multiethnic, and multicultural categories constructed and utilized for situational tasks and locally emergent goals. Furthermore, this study sees acts of codeswitching as a communicative resource t…

Compilation of language corpora : computer related issues and annotation

1999

Understanding the role of cross-language transfer of phonological awareness in emergent Hindi–English biliteracy acquisition

2022

AbstractThis study examined within and cross-language relations, and specifically, the role of phonological awareness (PA) skills in reading among young Hindi-speaking children (L1) who were learning to read English (L2) in Delhi, India. Data was collected from 143 children in Grades 1 and 2 using measures validated for this population. The analyses examined the associations between L1 and L2 PA and decoding, both within and across the two languages. The results showed that PA skills within each language significantly predicted decoding in that language. Furthermore, there was evidence of cross-language transfer with Hindi PA significantly predicting English word reading even after controll…

Cultural identity of bilinguals in Finland : subjective experiences of English-Finnish -speaking bilinguals

1999

Język(i) w przestrzeni publicznej w świetle teorii socjologicznej i badań empirycznych. Casus młodzieży Śląska Opolskiego

2020

opennessThe article is devoted to the social dimension of linguistic phenomena occurring in Opole region. The Signum specificum of this region consists of: the dialect as a criterion for delimiting the Silesian group and the German language with the related issue of bilingualism. The aim of the article is to present the scope of research conducted by sociologists from Opole on the subject of the diverse linguistic phenomena occurring in the region. The article GWI2DZstates the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the new project of sociological research on bilingualism and multilingualism in the region, and presents the results of a pilot study conducted in 2019 among high school s…

»just de niillä oli sovmorgon» : Kulturella och pragmatiska aspekter på kodväxling i tvåspråkiga ungdomssamtal i Haparanda, Stockholm och Helsingfors

2017

The aim of the study is to explore situational, cultural and pragmatic factors that might trigger code-switching during informal conversations outside of the classroom at school among bilingual adolescents in Haparanda, Helsinki and Stockholm. An attempt is made to clarify different functions of code-switching, i.e. why bilingual adolescents code-switch from Swedish to Finnish and vice versa. The conversational data, consisting of video-recorded group and pair conversations, was collected in 2014–2015 at six junior high schools in Haparanda, Helsinki and Stockholm. The analysis of the data is qualitative. The theoretical framework is found in the field of translanguaging, which aims to desc…

Constructing family language policy : a case-study on bilingual family language policy

2012

Tutkielman tarkoituksena oli tarkastella kaksikielisten perheiden kielipolitiikkaan vaikuttavia tekijöitä. Tiedetään, että kaksikielisten perheiden vanhempien kielikäytänteillä on suuri vaikutus lapsen kielelliselle kehitykselle; useat tutkimukset ovat osoittaneet, että perheen kielipolitiikalla on merkittävä vaikutus siihen, tuleeko lapsesta kaksikielinen vai ei. Sen vuoksi on mielekästä tutkia millaisia ratkaisuja kaksikieliset perheet tekevät kielikäytänteidensä suhteen, ja mitkä tekijät ovat olleet vaikuttamassa näihin ratkaisuihin. Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena oli omalta osaltaan olla lisäämässä tietämystä näistä tekijöistä. Vaikka kaksikielisistä perheistä on olemassa paljon tutkimust…

Exploring identity construction in bilingual families

2017

Tämän pro gradu-tutkielman tarkoituksena on tarkastella kahden kaksikielisen perheen jäsenten identiteetin rakentumista. Vaikka kaksikielisyyttä perheissä on tutkittu laajalti, identiteetin rakentumisen näkökulmasta tutkimuksia on suhteellisen vähän. Tutkimus on luonteeltaan laadullinen ja tavoitteena oli selvittää miten perheenjäsenet kuvaavat identiteettiään ja identifioituvat kieliinsä sekä millaisia identiteettejä he rakentavat itselleen. Identiteettiin liittyen, tukielma halusi myös vastata kysymyksiin kielen käytöstä sekä tunteiden ilmaisemisesta. Tutkielma myös tarkastelee mahdollisia eroja ja yhtäläisyyksiä identiteettien välillä sukupolvien sekä sisarusten kesken. Lähtökohtana tutk…

Xarxes semàntiques en el lèxic disponible de València. Una aproximació al lexicó bilingüe

2016

This work deals with the situation of languages in contact and explores the nature of bilingual lexicon by studying lexical availability. Based on the results published in 2010 in Lèxic disponible de València, and in relation to 'town' as the center of interest, the study applied a new analytical tool called DispoGrafo, which enabled us to observe issues related to the construction and organization of the mental lexicon, for example, the incidence or profitability of facilitating semantic-priming-in clusters made up of three or more closely linked elements. The sample was obtained from 464 high school students of 2nd baccalaureate in the Valencia province, and was established to represent t…

CLIL Implementation in Greece : Empirical Findings from 2006 to 2020

2023

Abstract Despite the increasing interest in CLIL in Greece over the past decade, Greek CLIL research is largely absent from international review studies. This systematic review focuses on primary and secondary education, and examines peer-reviewed empirical research on CLIL implementation in Greece from 2006 to 2020. A total of 33 items are reviewed using qualitative Content Analysis. Organized according to commonalities shared by their foci, the reviewed items highlight three main research areas of CLIL implementation in Greece: (1) CLIL project evaluation, (2) CLIL students’ development, and (3) CLIL teachers. The reviewed studies suggest that CLIL implementation in Greece tends to be qua…