TY - JOUR AU - Shalini Argellan, AU - Lubna Ali Mohammed, AU - Nithiyaroobi Krishnansamy, PY - 2019/01/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - CODE SWITCHING PHENOMENON IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL JF - International Journal of Management and Human Science (IJMHS) JA - International Journal of Management and Human Science VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - DO - UR - https://ejournal.lucp.net/index.php/ijmhs/article/view/794 SP - 35-42 AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">Code switching<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and mixing of languages happen widely in the educators' discourse as well as the students in the classroom. In many occasions, </span>code switching<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> often divides opinion especially among English Language learners in Malaysia. Consequently, the present study aimed at the level of students practicing code-switching in English teaching classroom at the tertiary level. This study attempts to illustrate how lecturers’ and students’ practice </span>code switching<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> in the Malaysian tertiary atmosphere. This study was designed using a quantitative method. </span>A convenient<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> purposive sampling was used for this study which involves both international and local students in a class. The data </span>was<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> collected from 40 students. The results show that </span>code switching<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> is employed through both teachers and students to function various purposes in ESL classroom. It was also found that code exchanging is normally utilized by the educators to encourage and oblige their understudies' grip and cognizance of the objective dialect and to constrict their understudies' learning nerves. Moreover, code exchanging is utilized by understudies as an acting technique to adjust for their clearness for the information passed on by their lecturers.</span></p> ER -