Language Culture and Curriculum
Editor and Book Reviews Editor: Eoghan Mac Aogain (St Patrick's College)
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Volume: 15 Number: 3 Page: 235–242
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Learning Culture by Communicating: Native–Non-Native Speaker Telephone Interactions
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Gisèle Holtzer
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This paper reports on a research programme (the SCOTLANG program) set up to study the development of L2 interactive skills and sociocultural competence among English and French native speaker university
students as evidenced in a communicative context. The preliminary findings reported here concern the acquisition of informal register by L2 speakers and the handling of topic development in native–non-native
speaker telephone conversations. In addition, the exolinguistic nature of the bilingual interactions leads to L1–L2 code-switching as native speakers assist non-native speaker comprehension. Other
L1–L2 code-switching phenomena are described but not yet accounted for at the present early stage of the project.
© Multilingual Matters 2002
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