29.4809, Diss: English; Sociolinguistics: Muhammed Sagir Abdullahi: ''Code-Switching in English Language Classes at Tertiary Institutions in Kano''

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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:16:27
From: MUHAMMED ABDULLAHI [sagirabdullahi2012 at gmail.com]
Subject: Code-Switching in English Language Classes at Tertiary Institutions in Kano

 Institution: Bayero University Kano, Nigeria 
Program: M. A. Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2018 

Author: Muhammed Sagir Abdullahi

Dissertation Title: Code-Switching in English Language Classes at Tertiary
Institutions in Kano 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Dissertation Director(s):
Prof. Aisha Iya Ahmad
Dr. Isah Yusuf Chamo
Dr. Tijjani Shehu Almajir
Prof. Murtala Ahmad

Dissertation Abstract:

This study explores the practice of code-switching in English classes at three
public tertiary institutions in Kano. The research focuses on the reasons of
teachers’ code-switching, functions and linguistic features on the types of
code-switching used in English classes. Teachers employ code-switching as a
strategy to carry students along due to their poor language proficiency.
Ethnography was adopted as methodology and Discourse Analysis approach (D.A)
as its theoretical framework. Observation, audio recording and
post-observation interviews were employed during the data collection.  Data
were analyzed based on 10 functions of code-switching by Hoffaman (1991) and
Poplack (1980) classification types of code-switching model. The findings
reveal that, teachers’ code-switching serve two different functions in English
language classes: instructional functions and social functions. Instructional
functions include; confirmation and evaluation, clarification, explanation,
word equivalence in terms of translation in order to facilitate comprehension.
While the social functions include; emotion and humor for establishing social
rapport with students and dealing with classroom discipline. All the
code-switched utterances employed by teachers were either inter-sentential,
intra-sentential or tag switching at word, clause, phrase and sentential
levels. Students support teachers’ code-switching in English class and its
usage to bridge the linguistic gaps in the area of vocabulary acquisition,
translation and explaining difficult terms, new words, idioms and proverbs.



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