Abstract: This study attempts to describe the practice of code-switching among selected teachers of the College of Arts and Sciences of Notre Dame University. The study employed the quasi-qualitative descriptive design. The data are transcriptions of the linguistic expressions spoke and recorded during the observation sessions. They were words, phrases, statements or whole discourses in both English and Tagalog. Transcriptions because they were recorded and been transcribed.
There were two youngest among respondents and they are 24 years old. The oldest is 56, most of them fall under the 25-30 and 36-40 age range. Eighteen of the respondents were male and twenty two were female. Most of them have MA/MS units. In term of length of service, most respondents have served for only one to five years.
The biggest number of frequency of code-switching is 32 and the least is 1 but the most cases of code-switched expression contained language mixing. In fact, the two highest cases of language mixing are 47 and 57. This happened because the teacher did not just code-switch, most of the time, they language mixed.
The pattern of code-switching used are the following: (a) English-Filipino-English (EFE); (b) Filipino-English (FE); (c) English Language Mix (ELM); (d) Filipino Language Mix (FLM); (e) Language Mixing (LM)
Observation of the transcribed statements reveal that code-switching is done at any point in the string of statements. They are found in the initial, medial and terminal positions.
Title: CODE-SWITCHING AMONG THE FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OF NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY
Author: MARILYN G. BILLONES, PhD
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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