Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom
This article examines how learning an additional language can positively affect children’s opinions and feelings about languages and how this process can be enriched when different languages namely, the additional language and the children’s L1s are present and used in the classroom in an informed w...
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| Keyword: | Anglès - Ensenyament Adquisició tercera llengua Plurilingüisme Traducció |
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| description | This article examines how learning an additional language can positively affect children’s opinions and feelings about languages and how this process can be enriched when different languages namely, the additional language and the children’s L1s are present and used in the classroom in an informed way. It is hypothesised that this will benefit children as language learners and, ultimately, as learners. A qualitative and quantitative study was carried out with 25 young learners for a school term. Their L1s (Catalan and Spanish) were brought into the English classroom and activities incorporating translation and codeswitching (CS), namely the pedagogically based CS, were developed. This switching of codes was promoted by the teacher but used by the students. Based on the research results, the article concludes by describing and discussing the positive develop ment observed in the children’s language awareness and plurilingual competence. |
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| spelling | Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom Corcoll López, Cristina Anglès - Ensenyament Adquisició tercera llengua Plurilingüisme Traducció This article examines how learning an additional language can positively affect children’s opinions and feelings about languages and how this process can be enriched when different languages namely, the additional language and the children’s L1s are present and used in the classroom in an informed way. It is hypothesised that this will benefit children as language learners and, ultimately, as learners. A qualitative and quantitative study was carried out with 25 young learners for a school term. Their L1s (Catalan and Spanish) were brought into the English classroom and activities incorporating translation and codeswitching (CS), namely the pedagogically based CS, were developed. This switching of codes was promoted by the teacher but used by the students. Based on the research results, the article concludes by describing and discussing the positive develop ment observed in the children’s language awareness and plurilingual competence. info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Taylor & Francis Online http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3819 https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2011.628023 |
| spellingShingle | Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom Corcoll López, Cristina Anglès - Ensenyament Adquisició tercera llengua Plurilingüisme Traducció |
| title | Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom |
| title_full | Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom |
| title_fullStr | Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom |
| title_full_unstemmed | Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom |
| title_short | Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom |
| title_sort | Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom |
| topic | Anglès - Ensenyament Adquisició tercera llengua Plurilingüisme Traducció |
| topic_facet | Anglès - Ensenyament Adquisició tercera llengua Plurilingüisme Traducció |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3819 https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2011.628023 |