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Publication details [#60650]

Tavares, Nicole Judith. 2015. How strategic use of L1 in an L2-medium mathematics classroom facilitates L2 interaction and comprehension. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 18 (3) : 319–335.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | foreign language acquisition | language of instruction | language use | mathematics

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper explores a bilingual teacher's strategic L1 use in a mathematics L2-medium classroom in Hong Kong, to mediate her students' progressive adjustment to the medium of instruction change.