CODE-SWITCHING IN THE CLASSROOM:A CLASH OF TWO

LANGUAGES?
(A Sociolinguistic Study of Classroom Interaction)
Lourdes S. Abad

Abstract

This classroom interaction analysis reports that allowing learners to be

taught the content in the various subject areas, except in the language arts
courses, using the first language and English as the second language enables the
students to understand difficult or complicated concepts which are not usually
comprehensible in English. As code-switching is a shared speech mode of both
the teachers and the students, this paper explains that code-switching by the
teachers does not cause confusion in the students’ understanding of difficult
concepts. This mode is not a clash of two languages but a complement of each
other.
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