L2 speakers and the pronouns of address in Welsh

Mixing Beginners and Native Speakers in Minority Language Immersion: Who is Immersing Whom?

“…The influence of the unofficial language of the classroom, rather than the target language, has been observed in Wales by Jones (1984Jones ( , 1991, who found that when primary school L1 speakers of Welsh were mixed with L2 learners, the Welsh speakers tended to accommodate to the interlanguage of the learners, rather than the L2learners adapting to the norms of the L1 speakers.…”