Publications

Publication details [#51716]

Ender, Andrea and Katharina Straßl. 2009. The acquisition and use of German in a dialect-speaking environment: facets of inclusion and exclusion of immigrant children in Switzerland. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 19 (2) : 173–187.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | immigrant | prejudice | sociolinguistics | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

German | German, Swiss

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses how immigrant children in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, need to acquire both standard and dialect German varieties, for respectively educational achievement and social inclusion.