Publications

Publication details [#55386]

Gafaranga, Joseph and Florence Bonacina. 2011. ‘Medium of instruction’ vs. ‘medium of classroom interaction’: language choice in a French complementary school classroom in Scotland. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 14 (3) : 319–334.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | conversational analysis | language choice | language of instruction | primary school

Language as a subject

English, British | French

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this study shows that the notion of ‘classroom interaction medium’ constitutes a more fitting ‘scheme’ for the interpretation of the bilingual classroom interaction observed in a French complementary school classroom in Scotland.