'Medium of instruction' vs. 'Medium of classroom interaction': Language choice in a French complementary school classroom in Scotland

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 319-334

  Bonacina, Florence ^a   Gafaranga, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Classroom interaction; Code switching; Complementary school; Conversation analysis; French

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956332455     PISSN: 13670050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2010.502222     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Alvarez-Cáccamo, C. 1998. From 'switching code' to 'codeswitching': Towards a reconceptualization of communicative codes. In Codeswitching in conversation, ed. P. Auer, 29-48. London: Routledge.
2. Auer, P. 1984. Bilingual conversation. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
3. Auer, P. 2000. Why should we and how can we determine the base language of a bilingual conversation? Estudios de Sociolingü i{dotless}́stica 1, no. 1: 129-44.
4. Bonacina, F. Forthcoming. Ideologies and issues of access in multilingual school ethnography: A French example. In Multilingualism, discourse and ethnography, ed. M. Martin-Jones and S. Gardner. Abingdon: Routledge.
5. Button, G. 1986. Moving out of closing. In Talk and social organisation, ed. G. Button and J.R.E. Lee, 101-51. Avon: Multilingual Matters.
6. Butzkamm, W.W. 1998. Code-switching in a bilingual history lesson: The mother tongue as a conversational lubricant. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 1, no. 2: 81-99.
7. Creese, A., and P.W. Martin. 2006. Interaction in complementary school contexts: Developing identities of choice - an introduction. Language and Education 20, no. 1: 23-44.
8. Cromdal, J. 2005. Bilingual order in collaborative text processing: On creating an English text in Swedish. Journal of Pragmatics 37, no. 3: 329-53.
9. Ferguson, G.R. 2003. Classroom code-switching in post-colonial contexts: Functions, attitudes and policies. AILA Review 16: 38-51.
10. Ferguson, G.R. 2009. What next? Towards an agenda for classroom codeswitching research. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12, no. 2: 231-41.
11. Gafaranga, J. 1999. Language choice as a significant aspect of talk organisation: The orderliness of language alternation. TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse 19, no. 2: 201-26.
12. Gafaranga, J. 2000. Medium repair vs. other-language repair: Telling the medium of a bilingual conversation. International Journal of Bilingualism 4, no. 3: 327-50.
13. Gafaranga, J. 2007a. Code-switching as a conversational strategy. In Handbook of multilingualism and multilingual communication, ed. P.W. Auer and L. Wei, 279-314. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
14. Gafaranga, J. 2007b. Talk in two languages. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
15. Gafaranga, J. 2009. The conversation analytic model of code-switching. In The Cambridge handbook of linguistic code-switching, ed. B.E. Bullock and A.J. Toribio, 114-26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. Gafaranga, J., and M.C. Torras. 2001. Language versus medium in the study of bilingual conversation. International Journal of Bilingualism 5, no. 2: 195-220.
17. Garfinkel, H. 1967. Studies in ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
18. Gumperz, J. 1982. Discourse strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
19. Heller, M. 1996. Legitimate language in a multilingual school. Linguistics and Education 8, no. 2: 139-57.
20. Lin, A.M.Y. 1996. Bilingualism or linguistic segregation? Symbolic domination, resistance and code-switching in Hong Kong schools. Linguistics and Education 8, no. 1: 49-84.
21. Macbeth, D. 2004. The relevance of repair in classroom correction. Language in Society 33, no. 5: 703-36.
22. Martin, P., A. Bhatt, N. Bhojani, and A. Creese. 2006. Managing bilingual interaction in a Gujarati complementary school in Leicester. Language and Education 20, no. 1: 5-22.
23. Martin-Jones, M. 1995. Code-switching research in the classroom: Two decades of research. In One speaker, two languages: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on code-switching, ed. L. Milroy and P. Muysken, 90-111. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. McGlynn, C., and P.W. Martin. 2009. 'No vernacular': Tensions in language choice in a sexual health lesson in the Gambia. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12, no. 2: 137-155.
25. McHoul, A. 1990. The organization of repair in classrooms. Language in Society 19, no. 3: 349-77.
26. Meeuwis, M., and I. Blommaert. 1998. A monolectal view of code-switching: Layered codeswitching among Zairians in Belgium. In Code-switching in conversation, ed. P. Auer, 76-100. London: Routledge.
27. Moodley, V. 2007. Codeswitching in the multilingual English first language classroom. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 10, no. 6: 707-22.
28. Muysken, P. 2000. Bilingual speech: A typology of codemixing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
29. Myers-Scotton, C. 1983. The negotiation of identities in conversation: A theory of markedness and code choice. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 44, no. 1: 115-36.
30. Myers-Scotton, C. 1988. Codeswitching as indexical of social negotiation. In Codeswitching: Anthropological and sociolinguistic perspectives, ed. M. Heller, 151-86. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
31. Probyn, M. 2009. 'Smuggling the vernacular into the classroom': Conflicts and tensions in classroom codeswitching in township/rural schools in South Africa. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12, no. 2: 123-136.
32. Raschka, C., P. Sercombe, and H. Chi-Ling. 2009. Conflicts and tensions in codeswitching in a Taiwanese EFL classroom. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12, no. 2: 157-71.
33. Schegloff, E. 2007. Sequence organization in interaction: A primer in conversation analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
34. Schegloff, E., G. Jefferson, and H. Sacks. 1977. The preference for self-correction in the organisation of repair in conversation. Language 53, no. 2: 361-82.
35. Schegloff, E., and H. Sacks. 1973. Opening up closing. Semiotica 7, no. 4: 289-327.
36. Swigart, L. 1992. Two codes or one: The insider's view and the description of code-switching in Dakar. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 13, nos. 1-2: 83-102.
37. Torras, M.C. 2005. Social identity and language choice in service talk. In Applying conversation analysis, ed. K. Richards and P. Seedhouse, 107-23. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
38. Torras, M.C., and J. Gafaranga. 2002. Social identities and language alternation in non-formal institutional bilingual talk: Trilingual service encounters in Barcelona. Language in Society 31, no. 4: 527-48.
39. Wei, L. 2006. Complementary schools: Past, present and future. Language and Education 20, no. 1: 76-83.
40. Wei, L., and C.J. Wu. 2009. Polite Chinese children revisited: Creativity and the use of codeswitching in the Chinese complementary school classroom. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12, no. 2: 193-211.
41. Zentella, C.A. 1997. Growing up bilingual. London: Blackwell.