First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning

<p>This volume offers fresh perspectives on a controversial issue in applied linguistics and language teaching by focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. It includes new work by both new and established scholars in educational scholarship second language acquisition and sociolinguistics as well as in a variety of languages countries and educational contexts. Through its focus at the intersection of theory practice curriculum and policy the book demands a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient and aspiring bilinguals do naturally and as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual code-switching.</p>