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Publication details [#30378]

Cameron, Lynne, Jane Moon and Martin Bygate. 1996. Language Development of Bilingual Pupils in the Mainstream : How do Pupils and Teachers Use Language?. Language & Education 10 (4) : 221–236.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | contextualization | education | language development1 | language proficiency

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0950-0782

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines bilingual pupils' English language development in mainstream education. It demonstrates the potentially crucial role of contextual factors, such as the amount of language production generated by task organization, the availability of potential discourse roles to pupils and the amount of interactive input and feedback pupils receive.