Investigating the correlation between code mixing and essay writing style: case study master two students at L’Arbi Ben M’hidi University Oum El Bouaghi
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2023
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
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In multilingual and bilingual communities, the alternation and mixing of several codes in a single discourse is a common phenomenon; this goes back to the richness of the linguistic repertoire that exists in such a nation. Precisely, this research study attempts to investigate the correlation between code mixing and essay writing style among master two EFL students. Correspondingly, this investigation is to find out whether there is a positive, negative or no correlation between the two variables. Methodologically speaking, the authors opted for a quantitative method where the numerical labelling of the chunks of code mixing is put into evidence. This concerns master 2 didactics students at the English Department of Larbi Ben M'hidi University. So the subjects' casual speech is recorded by phone device then analysed meanwhile the subjects' essays are examined by means of content. After this, the use of the SPSS programme was needed to figure out the correlation between the variables. The study confirmed our alternative hypothesis, which says that the overuse of code mixing deteriorates essay writing stylistic competence among Master 2 didactic students. Code mixing is one of the sociolinguistic phenomena that is worth investigating in the pedagogical context in addition to the social one in the Algerian community and all over the world.
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Correlation; EFL students; Code mixing; Essays writing style