A Study of Bilingual Chinese/English Children's Code Switching Behavior. This is an interesting article for those of you who deal with bilingual students.  It is from Academic Exchange Quarterly.
From the site:
This paper reports the findings from a study that explores young Chinese/English bilingual children’s code switching behavior in a Chinese language program.  In particular, it describes one bilingual child’s patterns of language use.  The findings suggest that code switching was used as a communicative device by the children in the study.  They switched languages during their speech in order to realize social function, pragmatic function, and meta-linguistic function.  Educational implications are also provided.
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