Frontiers in Educational Research, 2023, 6(13); doi: 10.25236/FER.2023.061322.
Xiaoyun Zhu
Fuzhou Technology and Business University, Fuzhou, China
This paper attempts to explore the phenomenon of code-switching in different teaching contents and teachers' classroom instruction in high school English classrooms, the data are collected through questionnaire surveys from 220 students and 16 teachers, and the results show that teachers and students hold the same view that classroom code-switching has a positive effect on English learning. This survey also found that the frequency of language code-switching when teachers teach different content is different and cannot fully meet the current needs of students’. In that light this paper puts forward targeted suggestions for more scientific and flexible strategies for the usage of language code-switching of classroom situation in the future, in the end of this paper it states the limitations of this study.
High school English classroom; code; frequency of code-switching
Xiaoyun Zhu. An empirical study of teachers' code-switching frequency in high school English classrooms. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 13: 132-136. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.061322.
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