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Publication details [#33129]

Vine, Elaine W. 2003. "My Partner": A Five-Year-Old Samoan Boy Learns How to Participate in Class Through Interactions With His English-Speaking Peers. Linguistics and Education 14 (1) : 99–121.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | peer group | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0898-5898

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines the opportunities of a five-year-old Samoan boy for learning English as a second language in a mainstream New Zealand classroom.