Abstract: This research explores the use of code switching among Iraqi postgraduate students in their academic discourse. This study utilizes qualitative research methods by using a purposive sampling to recruit the Iraqi postgraduate students who are registered in Malaysian universities for different programs. There are 4 males and 4 females selected for the interviews from different fields of study. Each pair from the same gender is separately included in discussion session. This study showed that the syntactic constrains is occurred within major constituents including the noun phrase, verb phrase, and nouns while, the smaller constituents occurred with conjunction, preposition, determiner and free morphemes. However, the participants are used the code switching within academic and scientific subjects, technology terms, and popular terms related to their Iraqi dialect.
Keywords: Code-switching, Academic discourse, Linguistic factor, syntactic constraints.
Title: Syntactic Constraints of Code Switching in Academic Discourse among Iraqi Postgraduate Students in Malaysia
Author: Halah Al-Ani, Harshita Aini Haroon
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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