The Use of Code-switching in the Iranian Bilingual Classroom and its Impact on Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study

There has been a widespread interest on the use of L1 in the L2 classroom and scholars have been paying further attention to the concept of code-switching through the past few decades. Code-switching is the alternation of one language to another in speech. This study has investigated the impact of t...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Chabokrow, Razieh (author)
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second language acquisition
sociolinguistic perspective
bilingual classroom
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description There has been a widespread interest on the use of L1 in the L2 classroom and scholars have been paying further attention to the concept of code-switching through the past few decades. Code-switching is the alternation of one language to another in speech. This study has investigated the impact of the use of code-switching on bilingual students’ L2 learning, and the reasons that prompt it. Teachers’ perception on the concept of code-switching and its presence in the bilingual classroom has also been examined. This research has been conducted at a bilingual school in Iran. A total of 30 secondary female students and two teachers have participated in this study. Observations, teacher interviews and a student questionnaire have been carried out in this research. The results of this study reveal that students code-switch for both linguistic and social reasons. In other words, code-switching has been suggested to facilitate students in their linguistic skills, as they are enabled to use the L1 when facing problems. Also, from the sociolinguistic perspective, code-switching is proved to assist students in overcoming their fear of speaking in L2. This study suggests that code-switching is beneficial to students’ second language acquisition.
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spelling The Use of Code-switching in the Iranian Bilingual Classroom and its Impact on Second Language Acquisition: A Case StudyChabokrow, Raziehcode-switchingsecond language acquisitionsociolinguistic perspectivebilingual classroomThere has been a widespread interest on the use of L1 in the L2 classroom and scholars have been paying further attention to the concept of code-switching through the past few decades. Code-switching is the alternation of one language to another in speech. This study has investigated the impact of the use of code-switching on bilingual students’ L2 learning, and the reasons that prompt it. Teachers’ perception on the concept of code-switching and its presence in the bilingual classroom has also been examined. This research has been conducted at a bilingual school in Iran. A total of 30 secondary female students and two teachers have participated in this study. Observations, teacher interviews and a student questionnaire have been carried out in this research. The results of this study reveal that students code-switch for both linguistic and social reasons. In other words, code-switching has been suggested to facilitate students in their linguistic skills, as they are enabled to use the L1 when facing problems. Also, from the sociolinguistic perspective, code-switching is proved to assist students in overcoming their fear of speaking in L2. This study suggests that code-switching is beneficial to students’ second language acquisition.The British University in Dubai (BUiD)2013-11-14T11:18:18Z2013-11-14T11:18:18Z2012-09Dissertationapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdf100040http://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/394enoai:bspace.buid.ac.ae:1234/3942021-11-09T12:56:56Z
spellingShingle The Use of Code-switching in the Iranian Bilingual Classroom and its Impact on Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study
Chabokrow, Razieh
code-switching
second language acquisition
sociolinguistic perspective
bilingual classroom
title The Use of Code-switching in the Iranian Bilingual Classroom and its Impact on Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study
title_full The Use of Code-switching in the Iranian Bilingual Classroom and its Impact on Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study
title_fullStr The Use of Code-switching in the Iranian Bilingual Classroom and its Impact on Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study
title_full_unstemmed The Use of Code-switching in the Iranian Bilingual Classroom and its Impact on Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study
title_short The Use of Code-switching in the Iranian Bilingual Classroom and its Impact on Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study
title_sort The Use of Code-switching in the Iranian Bilingual Classroom and its Impact on Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study
topic code-switching
second language acquisition
sociolinguistic perspective
bilingual classroom
url http://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/394