a study of sociolinguistic characteristics of Taiwan children's peer-talk in a MandarinEnglish-speaking preschool  

Oleh:

Wang, Li-Chen ; Hyun, Eunsook

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal Of Early Childhood Research vol. 07 no. 01 (Feb. 2009), page 3–26.
Topik: EFL; Mandarin–English bilingual preschool; sociolinguistic characteristics; Taiwan young children’s peer-talk
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This qualitative study presents sociolinguistic characteristics of peertalk of 44 children in a Mandarin–English-speaking preschool in Taiwan where English was taught as a foreign language (EFL). Key fi ndings: teacher-dominated talk infl uences children’s peer-talk; EFL and codeswitching emerge in spontaneous peer-talk; children actively engage in EFL learning by using private speech for self-regulatory learning; children actively provide peer tutoring even though they are in the early stage of EFL learning; and language play creates emergent humor for children’s verbal participation in the EFL classroom, offering a way for them to resist authoritative voices and thus transform EFL into a living language.

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