The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from each other. This volume attempts to unite these three research strands by placing at the centre of the enquiry the role played by socia…
Focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms, this volume calls for a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient & aspiring bilinguals do naturally, & as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual c…
Code-switching - the alternating use of several languages by bilingual speakers - does not usually indicate lack of competence on the part of the speaker in any of the languages concerned, but results from complex bilingual skills. The reasons why people switch their codes are a…
The alternating use of languages by bilingual speakers in a social, grammatical, and psycholinguistic context.
