Classroom code-switching: Three decades of research

Applied Linguistics Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 195-218

  Lin, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

bilingual classrooms; classroom code switching; classroom research paradigms; disciplinary bilinguals; interactional sociolinguistics; L1 use in L2 classrooms; translanguaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881624952     PISSN: 18686303     EISSN: 18686311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2013-0009     Document Type: Article

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