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Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley
Language Learning and Language Use in Multilingual Settings

An analysis of service encounters between Yucateco Maya immigrants in San Francisco and immigrants from other ethnic and national backgroundsshows that the ability to function in the multilingual environments of our globalized economy requires more than just communicative competence in English. This paper proposes a new notion, that of "symbolic competence," and explores its significance for the teaching of English as a second language.

Claire Kramsch is Professor of German and Affiliate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley, where she teaches courses in Second Language Acquisition & Applied Linguistics in the German department and in the Graduate School of Education. She is the past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and past editor of Applied Linguistics. She is the editor of Language acquisition and language socialization: Ecological perspectives (Continuum, 2002).

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