International Journal of Bilingualism articles from June 2007

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from June 2007

A comparative study of requests in heritage speaker Spanish, L1 Spanish, and L1 English.
June 1, 2007... Abstract Although requests are the most widely studied speech act, there has not been extensive research on the requests produced by heritage speakers of Spanish in the United States. This study compares the requests of three groups:...

Bilingual practices in the process of initiating and resolving lexical problems in students' collaborative writing sessions.(Report)
June 1, 2007... Abstract This study deals with the sequential organization of language choice and codeswitching between Persian as a first language and Swedish as a second language in the process of initiating and resolving a problem of understanding and...

Postverbal elements in immigrant Turkish: evidence of change?
June 1, 2007... Abstract Contact between languages usually leads to linguistic changes. Both social and structural factors are claimed to influence this process. This study analyzes word order in Turkish as spoken in the Netherlands (NL-Turkish). Turkish...

Trilingual conversations: a window into multicompetence.
June 1, 2007... Abstract A recurrent theme in the literature on trilingual language use is the question of whether there is a specific "trilingual competence." In this paper we consider this question in the light of codeswitching patterns in two dyadic...