Publications

Publication details [#50134]

Romero Trillo, Jesús and Ana Llinares García. 2007. Getting personal: native speaker and EFL pre-school children's use of the personal function. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 17 (2) : 198–213.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | function | native speaker | pre-school age | teacher

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study presents a taxonomy of the realisation of the personal function in five-year-old native English speaking and English as a foreign language learning children in first and second classroom contexts, and demonstrates the teacher role in the realisation of this function in the second case.