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Publication details [#66092]

Martin-Beltrán, Melinda, Angélica Montoya-Ávila, Andrés A. García, Megan Madigan Peercy and Rebecca Silverman. 2019. ‘Time for una pregunta’: understanding Spanish use and interlocutor response among young English learners in cross-age peer interactions while reading and discussing text. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (1) : 17–34.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
discussion | first language acquisition | language use | literacy | peer group | reading | response | second language acquisition | text
Language as a subject
English | Spanish
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This inquiry explored how cross-age peers (ages 5–6 and 9–10) employed and replied to Spanish (L1) as they read and talked about informational texts together written in English (L2). Findings have implications for educators to ponder how L1 can be employed in peer debates, reading materials, and teacher language as pedagogical tools, which should respond to learners with different L1/L2 literacy backgrounds.