Discourse and educational functions of students' and teachers' code-switching in EFL classrooms in Turkey

Atas U., Sagin-Simsek C.

LINGUISTICS AND EDUCATION, cilt.65, 2021 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 65
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.linged.2021.100981
  • Dergi Adı: LINGUISTICS AND EDUCATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Student code-switching, Teacher code-switching, Discourse functions, EFL classrooms, Turkey, LANGUAGE
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Code-switching (CS) is frequently used in English as a Foreign Language classrooms (EFL) serving different discourse and educational functions. This paper reports on a case study investigating the forms and functions of code-switching used by the students and the teachers in EFL classrooms in a Turkish university, where the language of instruction was English. Data were gathered from two advanced classes, two pre intermediate classes and one intermediate class through video-recordings. The data obtained from these recordings were transcribed and analysed using the transcription software EXMARaLDA. The results suggest that the most frequent form of code-switching was observed to be using discourse markers. Both the teachers and students used code-switching in the classes for educational and communicative reasons, in particular, to achieve better communication, to deliver content, and to deal with classroom management problems. Implications of the findings for educators and language learning contexts are also discussed. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.