First Published in 1999. Code switching is widely used in bilingual communities worldwide, and has been found in government documents, literature, religious works, and song. Pursuing this aim here, chapter 1 addresses the relevance of the study of code switching for education and schooling, focusing on ways in which a misunderstanding of code switching may lead to tacit tracking effects for language-minority children.
Argues that if the underlying linguistic competence of code switchers people who switch back and forth between languages, dialects, or levels of formality is the same as that of monolinguals for the languages they use, then code switching should not be stigmatized in schools. Also contends that a b
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
Jan 1999
ISBN
9780815332749
Pages
306 p.
Item Type
Book
Format
Hardcover
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