Publications

Publication details [#35798]

Merritt, Marilyn, Ailie Cleghorn, Jared O. Abagi and Grace Bunyi. 1992. Socialising multilingualism: Determinants of codeswitching in Kenyan primary classrooms. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 13 (1/2) : 103–121.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | code-switching | language choice | multilingualism | teacher

Language as a subject

English | Swahili

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper examines and discusses motivations of Kenyan teachers' language choice and codeswitching between mother-tongue, Swahili and English in three primary schools.