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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Autor: Corcoll López, Cristina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Ramon Llull (URL)
Repositorio:DAU Arxiu Digital de la Universitat Ramon Llull
OAI Identifier:oai:dau.url.edu:20.500.14342/3819
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3819
https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2011.628023
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anglès - Ensenyament
Adquisició tercera llengua
Plurilingüisme
Traducció
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spelling Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroomCorcoll López, CristinaAnglès - EnsenyamentAdquisició tercera llenguaPlurilingüismeTraduccióThis 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/acceptedVersionTaylor & Francis OnlineUniversitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Psicologia, Ciències de l'Educació i de l'Esport Blanquerna202420242013info:eu-repo/semantics/article17application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3819https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2011.628023reponame:DAU Arxiu Digital de la Universitat Ramon Llullinstname:Universitat Ramon Llull (URL)InglésInternational Journal of Multilingualism, 10:1, 27-45© Taylor and FrancisAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dau.url.edu:20.500.14342/38192026-06-21T06:40:37Z
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title Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom
spellingShingle Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom
Corcoll López, Cristina
Anglès - Ensenyament
Adquisició tercera llengua
Plurilingüisme
Traducció
title_short 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_sort Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Corcoll López, Cristina
author Corcoll López, Cristina
author_facet Corcoll López, Cristina
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Anglès - Ensenyament
Adquisició tercera llengua
Plurilingüisme
Traducció
topic Anglès - Ensenyament
Adquisició tercera llengua
Plurilingüisme
Traducció
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