Publications

Publication details [#41541]

Francis, Norbert. 1998. Bilingual Children's Reflections on Writing and Diglossia. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 1 (1) : 18–46.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | child | diglossia | metalinguistic awareness | writing

Language as a subject

Nahuatl | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study on metalinguistic awareness, investigates Spanish/Nahuatl bilingual children's perceptions of language contact in a context of marked social imbalance between their first and second languages.