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Table 7 Intermove language shift

From: Language shift: analysing language use in multilingual classroom interactions

T

Now I want you to focus on the first sentence.

A1

T

Yang ini ya

K1

This one.

(reading) Gould described this bird in 1858, naming it the Crowned Wren. Malurus is from the Greek for ‘soft’ (malocos) and ‘tail’ (oura), which refers to the soft tail feathers; coronatus is Latin for ‘crowned’, a reference to the male’s purple crown.

T

I want you to find the genus of this species.

dK1

S

Aku tahu!

K2

I know!

Malurus!

T

OK, good!

K1

Very good!