Codeswitching in university English-medium classes
Subtitle: Asian perspectives
By: edited by Roger Barnard and James McLellan
Series: New perspectives on language and education -- 36; New perspectives on language and education -- 36.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bristol; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781783090907; 9781783090891; 9781783090914
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Code switching (Linguistics); Case studies; College students; Language; English language; Study and teaching (Higher); Foreign speakers
Description: In the multilingual societies of the 21st century, codeswitching is an everyday occurrence, and yet the use of students' first language in the EFL classroom has been consistently discouraged. This volume begins by examining current theoretical work on codeswitching and then proceeds to examine the convergence and divergence between university language teachers' beliefs about codeswitching and their classroom practice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.