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Publication details [#45998]

Hickey, Tina. 2007. Children’s Language Networks in Minority Language Immersion: What Goes In May Not Come Out. Language & Education 21 (1) : 46–65.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interaction | L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | minority language | pre-school age

Language as a subject

English | Irish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article offers a qualitative analysis of first language minority language children’s output in mixed first language and second language learner groups by exploring their language networks and their Irish target language usage, in Irish-medium preschools where they are communicating with Irish second language learners.