Code switching habits in high school

Code switching habits in high school
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Introduction
Code switching in linguistic terms is the tendency by multilingual – people who speak more than one language, individuals to speak alternatively, using more than one language or varieties in a single conversation. While code switching, speakers do not change the syntax and the phonology of the language, rather, code switching is consistent with a language’s rules.
Code switching however, is different from other phenomena in language such as borrowing and loaning words. Borrowing for example will affect the lexicon of the language while code switching will affect utterances. Furthermore, code switching happens when the speakers are fluent in the languages involved.
In order for readers to identify the reasons or functions of switching, the approaches taken by the experts in studying code-switching are very important. In addition, utterances containing code-switching are similar to those of one linguistic variety alone in terms of discourse unity. In other words, when the switching occurs within a single sentence, the elements from the two different languages generally are joined together prosaically. The linguistic variety in code switching may be different languages, dialects or style of the same language (Bassiouney, 2009).
Causes of code switching in high schools
There are different approaches experts take to identify how and code switching occurs in the conversations in high school. The most common approach is observation of the participants to determine how often they will code switch.
for the teachers, code switching may be done due to the teachers lack of proficiency in a language that he or she is teaching or the inability to think of the proper word to use to make the student understand better. This maybe as a result of the students not having a wide vocabulary in the language taught. Other times, meaning of cultural concepts may be difficult for the students to get when explained in languages that a...