Publications

Publication details [#60213]

Simango, Silvester Ron. 2015. “Amaphi ama-subjects eniwa-enjoy-ayo esikolweni?”: Code-switching and language practices among bilingual learners in the Eastern Cape. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2015 (234) : 77–91.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | code-switching | informality | language proficiency | language use

Language as a subject

English, South African | isiXhosa

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

Against expectations, enhanced English proficiency in isiXhosa learners at an English-medium grade school, does not unavoidably cause language shift from isiXhosa to English, but rather engenders a more unified isiXhosa-English code-switching as informal speech characteristic.