Publications

Publication details [#44597]

Liang, Xiaoping. 2006. Identity and Language Functions: High School Chinese Immigrant Students' Code-Switching Dilemmas in ESL Classes. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 5 (2) : 143–167.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | high school | identity negotiation | immigrant | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper explores high school Chinese immigrant students' code-switching behavior in the English as a foreign language classroom in relation to individual and group identity and to the functional use of the first and the second language.