A Tentative Analysis of Code-Switching in College Bilingual Education

Qing XU

Abstract


The study sets out to investigate the issue of teacher code-switching and its implications for college bilingual education. This paper examines the purposes and reasons of code-switching and how code-switching is used as a communicative strategy in a bilingual teaching classroom.

Key words: Code-switching; Bilingual teaching; Case study


Keywords


Code-switching; Bilingual teaching; Case study

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.ccc.1923670020120804.1583

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