The Importance Of Code Switching

Literature review

Code-switching is the wider phenomenon that occurs among the bilinguals or multilingual, who knows more than one language and switch language from one to another in order to communicate. It is used to substitute a word or phrase from one language to another language, which comes consciously or unconsciously in one’s conversation that often switchers may not be aware of the fact that they have switched the language. It can be happened in daily communicative strategies as well as in educational sectors by students and teachers in order to understand the meanings of text in classrooms. As Sert (2005) asserted “code switching is used by teacher in order to build solidarity and intimate relations with the students. In this sense,

The major findings of research were to find out attitudes of both teachers and undergraduate students towards classroom Code-switching and the specific purposes of teachers’ Code-switching. The sample of study was 300 participants in which 12 were language teachers and 288 students of third and fourth semester of M.A English from four different universities of Pakistan, Govt. College University Faisalabad (GCUF), National University of Modern Languages (NUML), University of Education (UOE), Faisalabad campus and University of Sargodha (UOS), under the mixed method paradigm. The data collecting tool was questionnaire based on open and close-ended questions and the collected data was analyzed descriptively and statistically. The results showed, both teachers and students had positive responses towards classroom Code-switching, to make meaning clear in the

The research paper investigated the attitudes of business students towards teachers’ Code-switching that how the phenomenon influence on their overall L2 learning. The sample of the study was 100 business students and 6 teachers in which 50% was of public and 50% was of private sector Universities from (BCRW) Business Communication and Report writing in Sarghoda. The paradigm was mixed method and data collecting tool was questionnaire in which open-ended questionnaire was handed over to teachers and close-ended questionnaire was for students to collect data descriptively and analytically, however; data was analyzed through SPSS to compute frequencies. The study had been concluded with the positive attitudes of 97% students and 5 out of six teachers towards L1 Code-switching that it was beneficial for L2 learning but one out of six teachers suggested that teacher should use this as the last