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Publication details [#55376]

Gearon, Margaret. 2011. The bilingual interactions of late partial immersion French students during a history task. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 14 (1) : 39–48.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | classroom conversation | history | language use | task-dependency of processing

Language as a subject

English, Australian | French

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article discusses the bilingual interactions of two small groups of 14-year-old students in a late partial immersion French programme in an Australian school, cooperating to solve a problem linked to a History task, comprising the design of a new medieval village. It is shown that the students do not only deploy French for the given task.