Kunitz2018a

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Kunitz2018a
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Kunitz2018a
Author(s) Silvia Kunitz
Title L1/L2 alternation practices in students’ task planning
Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Italian, Italian as a foreign language, Classroom, Second language, Multilingualism, SLA, Transitions, Language alternation, Code-switching, Classroom interaction, Group work
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2018
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 107–128
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/pbns.295.06kun
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Howpublished
Book title Conversation Analysis and Language Alternation: Capturing transitions in the classroom
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Abstract

This conversation analytic study explores the language alternation patterns enacted by students of Italian as a Foreign Language as they engage in planning a classroom presentation. The data consist of 13 planning sessions conducted by two groups of students enrolled in a third semester course and two groups of students enrolled in a sixth semester course at a US university. The analysis shows how the participants achieve a local interactional order (Cromdal 2005) where the alternation between the L1 and the L2 embodies the distinction between planning process (in L1-English) and planning product (in L2-Italian) and achieves the transition between such components of the planning activity. Overall, the study demonstrates that language alternation is a discursive skill that constitutes a resource for planning for students at different proficiency levels.

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