EFL Students’ Attitudes Towards Teachers’ Use of Code Switching in Classroom The Case of First Year Master Students at Khenchela University
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2018
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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This dissertation investigates and describes the EFL students’ attitudes towards the teachers’ use of
Code Switching in classroom; it also explores the perceptions teachers hold regarding the use and
the function of Code Switching. The respondents of this study were EFL first-year master students
and teachers at Abbess Laghror-Khanshla-University year 2017-2018.The questionnaire is the
research instrument adopted for data collection. A mixed method was used to collect data
qualitatively and quantitatively .The findings of this study demonstrate that the students share
positive attitudes towards their instructors’ use of Code Switching. In contrast, the teachers have
revealed negative perspectives about classroom Code Switching; they have stated that they only use
Code Switching in special cases such as translating and clarifying difficult terms.