Social Bilingualism and FL Teaching: The Case of Catalan

Learning a foreign language entails acquiring competence on what is expected socially and culturally by users of the target language. However, in this paper I show how adoption of the sociolinguistics norms of certain languages conflicts with some principles of Foreign Language (FL) instruction...

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Main Author: Amalia Llombart-Huesca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 2005-01-01
Series:Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
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Online Access:http://www.ncolctl.org/files/social-bilingualism.pdf