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Publication details [#41544]

Butzkamm, Wolfgang. 1998. Code-switching in a Bilingual History Lesson: The Mother Tongue as a Conversational Lubricant. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 1 (2) : 81–99.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | code-switching | communicative competence | foreign language acquisition | history

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper argues that brief episodes of code-switching to the mother tongue can serve as a learning aid to increase foreign language communicative competence.