Publications

Publication details [#51527]

Raschka, Christine, Peter G. Sercombe and Huang Chi-Ling. 2009. Conflicts and tensions in codeswitching in a Taiwanese EFL classroom. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12 (2) : 151–171.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | code-switching | conflict | foreign language acquisition | language of instruction

Language as a subject

English | Taiwanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study deals with the perceived functions of English-Taiwanese codeswitching practices in English as a foreign language classrooms in two Taiwanese cram schools in Taipei, and the degree to which they constitute sources of conflict, given the 'English-only' rule as the most efficient teaching-learning method in English as a foreign language classrooms.