The Grammatical Constraints on Code-switching in Fortress Besieged

This paper analyzes the grammatical structures of code-switching in Qian Zhongshu 's famous work-Fortress Besieged and two conclusions are reached: In this novel, the matrix language Chinese plays a dominant role in the mixed constituents, lexically, morphologically and syntactically while in the matrix language islands and the embedded language islands, constituents respectively follow the grammatical rules of the matrix language-Chinese and the embedded language-English or French.

A Study of Code-Switching in Students' Talk in College English Class

Code-switching between English and Chinese usually occurs in students' talk when they are involved in taking communicative language activities in college English class. This paper studies the situations in which students are likely to use codeswitching and analyzes it from the perspective of the mental world in Verscheren's Adaptation Theory. It shows that inadequate mastery of English language, cultural differences and the improper adjustment to context may lead to students' using of codeswitching. It also shows that the use of code-switching in students' talk adapts to students' cognitive elements and emotive elements as well.

The Causes and Applications of Code Switching Between Chinese and English in Social Intercourse

This paper examines the phenomenon of code switching between Chinese and English in China.It explores the causes,types,and applications of code switching,as well as the public’s attitudes towards it.The paper distinguishes between pathological and non-pathological code switching,and analyzes the corpus of code switching in Hong Kong.It also discusses how English as a dominant language affects the perception and use of code switching.The paper suggests that code switching is not only a linguistic but also an emotional process,and that speakers and listeners should be aware of their audience group when using code switching.

Relevance theory: the Cognitive Pragmatic Foundation of Code-switching

The paper will discuss the process of code-switching and its cognitive pragmatic motivation from the point of relevance.And code-switching is also regarded as a kind of communicative strategy.The process of the production of code-switching is also the cooperation and mutual constrain of communicator’s cognitive environment and ability.Cognitive effect can be obtained through communicator’s processing cognitive environment with their cognitive ability.In this process,the cooperation of cognitive ability and cognitive environment gives a guarantee to successful communication with code-switching.

A Study on the Teachers'Code-switching in Vocational College Non-Eng lish Majors'English Instruction

This paper is designed to investigate the teachers'code-switching used in English instruction in vocational colleges and wants to make some efforts to the better understanding and use of code-switching and develop a positive attitude towards the code-switching in English teaching classroom.

The Use of Code-switching in English Foreign Language Classroom

people used to be negative on the use of code-switching in English foreign language classroom.However,more and moreresearches begin to argue that code-switching does have its practical significance.Some basic concepts of code-switching will first-ly be introduced in the article.Then,there is a literature review of the previous studies on the code-switching in English foreignlanguage class.By exposing detailed researches on it,some implications for teaching pedagogy will be explicated.From differentperspectives of the use of code-switching,this article aims to explore the necessity of code-switching in a context of foreign lan-guage teaching classroom by presenting some latest researches on it and reviewing different views on the use of code-switching inEnglish Foreign Language class.

A Study of EFL Teachers' code-switching in Vocational College Intensive Reading Classroom

In the past 30 years, code-switching has been a focus in the field of linguistics in western countries. Researchers stud?ied it from different angles and have made a lot of findings.However, the researchers in China begin their studies on this issue un?til the last decade. Thus,the relevent empirical studies were less and most of them only use students from the classrooms in the sec?ondary schools or the undergraduates in the universities as the subjects.They paid little attention to the EFL classrooms in the vo?cational colleges. Vocational college students are poor in English foundation. English teachers can not finish their teaching mission in English classroom, so the use of code-switching becomes a very common phenomenon in EFL class of vocational college. In order to make teaching and learning promote and enhance each other, according to previous research findings, this paper do a fur?ther study about the teachers' use of code switching in the vocational college English intensive reading classes in China.

Motivations of Code-switching among People of Different English Proficiency:A Sociolinguistics Survey

Code-switching is a linguistic behavior that arises as a result of languages coming into contact. The idea of codeswitching was proposed since the 1970 s and has been heatedly discussed. This study will particularly focus on the motivations for code-switching on campus, especially for the reason of college students and teachers as frequent users. The study aims to find out if there is any relevance between one's English proficiency and motivation for code-switching.

A Tentative Study on Code-switching

Code-switching is a very common phenomenon as a result of language touch. This paper will make a tentative analysis of code-switching from some daily examples. Its definition, types and functions will be discussed, aiming at deepening the understanding of it.

Optical Packet Switching Scheme Using Multi-optical-code Labels

Proposed is a novel optical code(OC) label switching scheme in which an optical label is constructed by multiple parallel optical codes.The performances of splitting loss and BER are simulated and analyzed.Simulation results show that the proposed label can be correctly recognized to perform packet switching.Compared with reported schemes using one OC as a label,the splitting loss in our proposal is lowered.

The Pragmatic Adaptability of Teachers' Code-switching in EFL Class-rooms of the Urban and Rural Junior Middle Schools

Based on Verschueren’s Linguistic Adaptation Theory(1999)and Yu Guodong’s Linguistic Adaptation Model(2001),the present paper analyzes teachers’code-switching in both urban and rural junior middle schools from the pragmatic perspective of adaptation.

Attitudes of Second Language Learners towards Code-switching in L2 Classroom

This paper chiefly examines the attitudes of second language learners,specifically,Chinese postgraduate students studying in the UK,towards code-switching between English and Mandarin in group discussion in L2 classroom.Questionnaire is implemented as the data collection method and yields some corresponding findings based on research questions.Meanwhile,recent research on code-switching in classroom is introduced briefly.Moreover,limitations and pedagogical implication of the original research mentioned above are elaborated,as well as the implied future research is presented in this area.

Teacher Talk Code-switching in College English Teaching Classroom

Code-switching is considered as a strategy of cognition, interaction and teaching. Foreign language teachers often use code-switching as a skill of pedagogy to teach students to learn foreign language and promote their own teaching practice. Evidence shows that the proper sue of code-switching will promote English teaching practice, however, it is arguable that how to use native language to improve English teaching. This paper will discuss code-switching in Chinese English teaching with the SLA theories and put forward some guidance to teacher talk code-switching.

Literature Review on the Application of Code-switching to College English Teaching

On the basis of the theme of the application of code-switching to college English teaching,the paper summarizes theoretical bases for the application of code-switching to college English teaching and the empirical studies on the application of code-switching to college English teaching.It aims to help people have a comprehensive understanding on the significance of code-switching in college English teaching.

A Study of Code-switching in the College English Classroom

Code-switching is an important domain in the sociolingusitics. Since the 1970 s, lots of linguists and experts has attached great importance to it. This paper is a tentative study of code-switching in the teaching English as a second language(TESL) from such aspects: the review of code-switching, principles adhered to the code-switching, factors which leads to the code-switching, and attitudes and functions of code-switching in the TESL.

An Audio-taped Study of Code-switching in College EFL Learners:with Special Reference to the Theory of Adaptation

The present study examines the phenomenon of code-switching in college EFL learners with special reference to the theory of adaptation.Through the audio-taped observation,it identifies four major categories of code-switching and discusses the salient levels of certain cases.

On Code-switching in Chinese Popular Songs from the Perspective of Adaptation Theory

With the advancing of Globalization,the language contact among people all over the world has become increasingly frequently.As the direct outcome of the language contact,code-switching has deeply rooted in people’s daily life as a common phenomenon which has drew great concerns.This paper aims at doing the research based on Chinese popular songs as the corpuses which are collected from the Internet with the method of empirical studies.First the corpuses are classified according to different criteria and then with the theory of Adaptation,code switching has been studied through the adaptation to social conventions,linguistic realities and the psychology motivations.As a normal linguistic as well as social phenomenon,code-switching should be treated with strict and respect.

Motivation and Pragmatic Strategies of Code-switching--A Case Study of the Switching between Cantonese and English on Campus in Guangzhou City

Code-switching is a daily affair in multilingual communities.A set of negotiation system exists in the conversations made by speakers and hearers,which is used to test whether the participants have such kind of linguistic repertoire to handle codeswitching,in order to take different conversation strategies to keep the conversation going on or to end it.With the assistances of several ways of analysis applied,including fieldwork and conversational analysis,this paper focuses on the social motivation and pragmatic model of code-switching between Cantonese and English.

Using Code-Switching in American University-Level FL Classrooms: A Communicative and Teaching Strategy

In recent years,the use of first language(L1)in teaching of second and foreign languages(L2/FL)has been a highly con⁃troversial issue in language teaching and learning studies.This qualitative case study of four American instructors use of codeswitching in their FL teaching explores in what occasion,in what ways,and for what reasons the instructors switched between stu⁃dents’native language and target languages.The results indicate that instructors’choices are to a great extent influenced by vari⁃ous factors,including their personal preferences,class subjects,and communicative purposes.Discussions about new discoveries have also been conducted.