Abstract
This article has sought to contribute to discussions concerning the value of inter-sentential patterns of code-switching (henceforth ISPCS) particularly in the context of EFL classrooms. Through a detailed analysis of recorded data produced in that context, distinctive features in the discourse were discerned which were associated with males’ and females’ inter-sentential switches. By looking at language choice against the background of this patterning, one can understand the complexity of the occurrences of inter-sentential switches in the classroom. A few studies on ISPCS in EFL classrooms have been hardly conducted to determine the gender-based inclination among EFL teachers. For this reason, there is a lack of awareness on the part of English language teachers about the qualitative and quantitative use of ISPCS in the context of Pakistani EFL classrooms. For the purpose of investigation, the ethnography of interaction was selected as a research design to record and transcribe the sessions of eight resource persons of Allama Iqbal Open University. During the analysis, the results of the study indicated that all the male and female teachers switched code in the boundary of ISS (henceforth ISS). Moreover, in the light of the data analysis, trends were determined among male and female teachers for the patterns of inter-sentential switches. In short, this paper tried to develop an understanding about the phenomenon of inter-sentential switches to get a better insight of the teaching/learning situation in the EFL context.
Highlights
Code-switching appears intertwined with a range of inter-linguistic phenomena in language contact from strict interference to several other kinds of language mixture
The arguments in this article are based both on theoretically-oriented works and on the data collected from research work conducted to investigate ISPCS in EFL classrooms
It was a prerequisite to explore the phenomena as non-participatory observers, and this strategy was mainly adopted to observe the trends of the ISS between male and female teachers in the EFL classrooms
Summary
Code-switching appears intertwined with a range of inter-linguistic phenomena in language contact from strict interference to several other kinds of language mixture. The connecting thread in this work is the need to understand the differences in the usage of inter-sentential switches between the interactants of EFL classrooms. Learning in classrooms is not merely a process of learning a language, but it is a reflection of language through which teachers determine their code to cater for their students’ need by applying different codes of interaction in the domain of EFL classrooms Focusing on the same deficiency, the researchers tried to develop more understanding of ISS in the context of EFL classroom
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