Algerian arabic english code-switching by master 2 students at Oum El Bouaghi university
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2022
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Université De Larbi Ben M’hidi Oum EL Bouaghi
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Code-switching has been studied by many researchers as a bilingual individual's behaviour and an essential part of bilingual speech. There are many factors that influence code-switching, and each one has the potential to be a confounding variable. Gender is one of these variables; however, whether there are significant gender differences in changing codes and what those differences are for Algerian Arabic-English Bilingual students remain uncertain, as past literature differs on the existence of gender disparities. Therefore, this study aims to investigate whether there is a variation in using code-switching among students of the department of English at Oum El Bouaghi University. Hence, both qualitative and quantitative study were conducted to shed light on who switches codes more among female and male students based on a questionnaire and audio-recordings corpus as tools of collecting data, the former was divided into two sections and distributed to 30 master 2 students and its data was analyzed quantitively, the latter was achieved through using a recording device and its data was analysed qualitatively. In terms of gender, the findings revealed significant gender disparities in code-switching behaviors, with females switching codes far more frequently in both ordinary speech and classroom situations. In terms of language use, English and Algerian Arabic were the most commonly spoken languages among both genders. Despite this, the data revealed considerable differences in the students' language use.
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Code-switching, Gender, Algerian Arabic