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Publication details [#53317]

Mikolič, Vesna. 2010. The relationship between communicative competence and language use in a multicultural environment: the case of Slovene Istria. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31 (1) : 37–53.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | bilingual education | communicative competence | language use | multiculturalism

Language as a subject

Italian | Slovenian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study focuses on Italian-Slovenian bilingualism in the multicultural context of Slovene Istria. It is argued that language use is not so much influenced by the degree of communicative competence, but rather by the opportunities to employ a language.