Publications

Publication details [#28247]

Leng Sim Lee, Mabel. 2002. Shy but not silent: A socially sensitive study of the speaking abilities of ten Sylheti women. Multilingua 21 (4) : 371–398.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnography | language proficiency | second language acquisition | social network

Language as a subject

English | Sylheti

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper explores the speaking skills of ten Sylheti (Bangladeshi) English second language learning women living in Newcastle upon Tyne. It emphasizes the importance of their number of English-speaking ties interlinked with environmental, cognitive and affective factors.