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Publication details [#60666]

Gyogi, Eiko. 2015. Children’s agency in language choice: a case study of two Japanese-English bilingual children in London. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 18 (6) : 749–764.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | bilingual acquisition | code-switching | language choice | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study distinguishes two ways by which two 12-year old English-Japanese bilingual children exercise their agency via contestation, negotiation and redefinition of their mother’s beliefs and via bilingualist practices, particularly code-switching, at home and elsewhere.