The Linguistic Features of Code-Switching: A Study of Sindhi/English Bilingual Teachers’ Classroom Interactions at Higher Secondary Levels in Sindh, Pakistan

Abstract

The main aim of this present study was to investigate the code-switching phenomenon for comprehensive understanding how it has positive effects upon teaching and learning process. This paper tried to investigate linguistics features of code-switching, which include code-switching at different levels like words, phrases and clauses levels as well as inter-sentential and intra-sentential code-switching. These linguistics features of code switching have been examined at higher secondary levels in both male teachers and female ones. Most of the findings of this study from Sindhi/English code-switching data, gathered from the Higher Secondary Schools of both Larkana and Hyderabad Districts, have been analyzed and discussed. It has been examined that most the teachers who teach at higher secondary levels in Northern Sindh mostly use code-switching and they use frequently different linguistic features of Sindhi/English while conducting classes. Moreover, it was also explored that intra-sentential code-switching was the leading code-switched grounds probably (41.2%), and (33.1%) at word level, (7.45%)) at phrase level and (21.56%) at clause level respectively, are the part of inter-sentential which has indicated a successful areas of inter-sentential code-switching. The inter-sentential code-switching (3.6%) was the least of them