The purpose of this degree paper is to investigate when and why teachers code-switchbetween L1 and L2 in the L2 classroom, and what the teachers’ thoughts about codeswitchingare. To get the information that we need to reach our purpose we have doneclassroom observations and interviewed teachers. The study was performed at a compulsoryschool and an upper secondary school, where we managed to get the co-operation from threeteachers at each school.The main conclusions are that all teachers at the compulsory school code-switched when theytranslated difficult words and phrases when they were too hard for the students to understand.Two of the teachers at the compulsory school used code-switching when they wanted to getthe students’ attention or create order in the classroom. Two of the teachers at the uppersecondary school code-switched when expressing feelings for example irritation. All threeteachers at the upper secondary school believe that code-switching is a helpful instrumentwhen teaching English and is considered to be inevitable.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-31840 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Ahlberg, Agneta, Bogunic, Ana |
| Publisher | Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), Malmö högskola/Lärarutbildningen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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