Investigating the impact of code- switching on EFL learners’ participation during interaction

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2018
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
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EFL learners' interaction and participation in the classroom remains important aspects in learning/teaching a foreign language. The study investigates the impact of Code-switching on EFL learners' participation during classroom practice. Two methods......tools have been used to test our hypothesis: a quasi-experiment and a questionnaire for students. The experiment involved two groups an experiment and a control group which underwent a pre- and post-test. While the former went through a treatment period, which consisted of being exposed to two languages (i.e, code-switching from L1 to L2), the control group did not receive any of such a treatment. The results showed that code-switching has significant effect on students' participation.
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Interaction, Classroom participation, Code switching
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