Publications

Publication details [#41573]

Ncoko, S.O.S., R. Osman and K. Cockcroft. 2000. Codeswitching Among Multilingual Learners in Primary Schools in South Africa: An Exploratory Study. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 3 (4) : 225–241.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | motivation | multilingualism | primary school

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses the incidence of codeswitching among multilingual learners in South African primary schools in classroom and playground situations and investigates the speakers' motivations for the use of codeswitching.