Publications

Publication details [#60648]

Lin, Angel Mei Yi and Yanming Wu. 2015. ‘May I speak Cantonese?’ – Co-constructing a scientific proof in an EFL junior secondary science classroom. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 18 (3) : 289–305.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | everyday conversation | foreign language teaching | language use | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Cantonese | English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This fine-grained sequential analysis discloses that students' familiar Cantonese language use must be permitted in teacher-student co-construction of a scientific proof in an English foreign language junior secondary science classroom in Hong Kong.