Welsh-English code-switching and the Matrix Language Frame model

Deuchar, Margaret

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2004.10.001

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“…All of the previous research that has applied the MLF model to Welsh-English data has found similar patterns (Deuchar, 2006;Deuchar and Davies, 2009;Davies and Deuchar, 2010). Deuchar (2006) analyzed a sample of 163 bilingual clauses and was able to identify Welsh as the ML in 141 clauses and found that English was the ML in only four clauses.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Indeed, we are not aware of a study that uses the MLF model to analyze anything other than production data, so it satisfies Criterion (1). Studies like Deuchar (2006), Smith (2006) and Davies (2010) (3) is also satisfied. Lastly, as will be described below, the MLF model allows the identification of a matrix language (ML) in each monolingual and bilingual clause.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Most existing studies that involve the application of the MLF model (e.g. Myers-Scotton, 1993Schmitt, 2000;Smith, 2006;Deuchar, 2006;Deuchar and Davies, 2009;Davies and Deuchar, 2010;Davies, 2010) analyze production data in order to identify the ways in which a bilingual's two languages interact. Indeed, we are not aware of a study that uses the MLF model to analyze anything other than production data, so it satisfies Criterion (1).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Deuchar (2006) analyzed a sample of 163 bilingual clauses and was able to identify Welsh as the ML in 141 clauses and found that English was the ML in only four clauses. Davies and Deuchar (2010) applied the MLF to both monolingual and bilingual finite simple clauses (n=1816), and found that Welsh was the ML in 95.43% of the total clauses.…”

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A Systematic Comparison of Factors Affecting the Choice of Matrix Language in Three Bilingual Communities

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In this paper we compare the code-switching (CS) patterns in three bilingual corpora collected in Wales, Miami and Patagonia, Argentina. Using the Matrix Language Framework (MLF) to do a clausebased analysis of a sample of data, we consider the impact of structural relationships and community norms on the CS patterns. We find that the ML is uniform where the language pairs have contrasting word orders, as in Welsh-English (VSO-SVO) and Welsh-Spanish (VSO-SVO) but diverse where the word order is similar as in Spanish-English (SVO-SVO). We find that the diversity of the ML in Miami is related to diversity of community norms (proficiency, identity and social network) in that community, while the uniformity of the ML in Wales is related to uniformity of community norms. This is not so clear in Patagonia, however, where we argue that bilingual speakers are so much in the minority that community norms may not hold.

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“…The majority of English medium programmes are burdened with intractable difficulties and incapacitating constraints (Hu, 2007). Many ethnic minority pupils reach the end of compulsory schooling without attaining full proficiency in English (Deuchar, 2006). The few studies cited above indicate that English poses serious challenges in the classroom, and Botswana is not an exception.…”

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The Outcomes of Learning a Foreign Language: Cases of Rural Primary Schools in Botswana

Mokibelo¹

2015

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This paper examines the outcomes of learning a foreign language on the learners in rural primary schools of Botswana. The task is carried out through scrutinising learners' writings from English language lessons. This paper is part of a larger study that studied the implementation of Botswana language-in-education policy in ethnically and linguistically complex classrooms. The trend from literature review indicates that ethnic minority learners have a problem in coping with English as a foreign language. The study adopted the qualitative approach and usedclassroom observations, open-ended questionnaires, and interviews to collect data. The sampled learners' artefacts were from schools where at initial school entry, learners speak different home languages, which are not necessarily school languages. The findings of the study indicate that learners find it difficult to acquire proficiency in English as a foreign language, leading to poor performance. Poor comprehension, lack of understanding, and lack of acquisition impact negatively on the students' general academic performance. The study concludes that it is necessary to reflect on the teaching and learning methods that suit learners who speak home languages that are different from the school languages. The study recommends that teachers be trained to use pedagogical approaches suitable to handle ethnically and linguistically complex classrooms.

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Code Switching

Deuchar¹

2012

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

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Code switching (CS) is an activity which may be observed in the speech (or writing) of bilinguals who go back and forth between their two languages in the same conversation. Please note that Spanish words are underlined, English words are shown in normal style, and Welsh words are shown in bold. Key to glosses: PL = plural, SG = singular, M = masculine, PRON = pronoun, DET = determiner, PRT = particle, NEG = negative/negative particle, DEM = demonstrative, DAT = dative, ACC = accusative, INF = nonfinite, PRES = present, IMP = imperfect tense, FUT = future tense, 1SG/1PL = 1st person singular/ plural, 2SG/PL = 2nd person singular/plural, and 3SG/3PL = 3rd person singular/plural. Examples (1)–(6) illustrate code switching from recorded conversations between Spanish‐English, Welsh‐English, and Welsh‐Spanish bilinguals. The data were collected as part of the research program of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism ( www.bilingualism.bangor.ac.uk ) and with funding from the AHRC for a grant awarded to the author for a project on “Code switching and convergence in Welsh: A universal versus a typological approach” (for the Welsh‐English data see http://talkbank.org/data/BilingBank/Bangor ).

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Welsh-English code-switching and the Matrix Language Frame model

Cited by 45 publications

References 17 publications

A Systematic Comparison of Factors Affecting the Choice of Matrix Language in Three Bilingual Communities

A Systematic Comparison of Factors Affecting the Choice of Matrix Language in Three Bilingual Communities

The Outcomes of Learning a Foreign Language: Cases of Rural Primary Schools in Botswana

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