Teachers’ attitudes towards code-switching in the English as a foreign language classroom

• Main Author: Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: LB1025 Teaching (principles and practices); LB1050.9 Educational psychology; PE English
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/1189/1/Engku%27s_-_BICOLL_2010.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/1189/

Code-switching has always been an intriguing phenomena to sociolinguists. While the general attitude to it seems negative, people seem to code-switch quite frequently. Teachers of English as a foreign language too frequently claim that they do not like to code-switch in the language classroom for va...