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ERIC Number: EJ450223
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0039-8322
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Communicative Interaction and Second Language Acquisition: An Inuit Example.
Crago, Martha B.
TESOL Quarterly, v26 n3 p487-505 Fall 1992
The role of cultural context in the communicative interaction of young Inuit children, their caregivers, and their non-Inuit teachers was examined in a longitudinal ethnographic study conducted in two small communities of arctic Quebec. Focus was on discourse features of primary language socialization of Inuit families. (32 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Eskimos, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Inupiaq, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Child Relationship, Second Language Learning, Socialization, Sociolinguistics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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