Книга: Laleh Toupa Esfandiari and Sima Modirkhamene «Theory of Interdependence Examined»

Theory of Interdependence Examined

Производитель: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing"

The present study aimed at finding the possibledifference between the performance of two differentgroups of bilinguals (dominant bilinguals andbalanced bilinguals/biliterates) compared with regardto their performance on two sets of skills i. e. BICS(Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skill) andCALP(Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency). Thestudy also aimed at finding out the possibleinterdependence of these skills according to thetheory of Common Underlying Proficiency, proposed byCummins (1979). It was hypothesized that differenttypes of bilinguals perform the same on tests ofreading as a CALP skill and speaking as a BICS skill. A total number of 96 senior EFL students from theuniversities of Kurdistan, Iran, and Salahaddin,Iraq, were included in the study. Fifty two(28female, 24male) were biliterate Kurdish-Arabicstudents from Salahaddin University in Kurdistan,Iraq. The other 44 (12 female, 32 male) wereKurdish-Persian bilingual students of English fromKurdistan University in... ISBN:9783844321739

Издательство: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" (2011)

ISBN: 9783844321739

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