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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Code-mixing"”.
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Code-mixing across languages: Structure, functions, and constraints
In recent years researchers have investigated code-mixing (CM) from three perspectives: psycholinguistic, syntactic, and functional. This study is concerned mainly with the functional use and syntactic structure of CM across cultures and languages.
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Code-Switching, Code-Mixing And Radical Bilingualism In U.s. Latino Texts
<p>My dissertation, Code-switching, Code-mixing and Radical Bilingualism in U.S. Latino texts investigates the nature and significance of Spanish-English code-switching in U.S. Latino texts. I analyze fiction, creative non-fiction, journalistic texts, songs, and social media messages and I carry …
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Code-Mixing and Imaging of America in France: The Genre of Advertising
… the lexicogrammatical and visual features of code-mixed advertisements; and (iv) to document current attitudes among advertising specialists in France regarding the effectiveness of using English in advertising, strategies for doing so, and French laws that penalize those who do.
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Code-mixing of Arabic and English in a university science-teaching context : frequency, grammatical categories, and attitudes
… Libya. It investigates aspects of Arabic-English code-mixing in a university scientific and technical teaching context. While the language policy in Libya is one which promotes the maintenance and purification of Arabic, and there are ideological barriers against the use of foreign languages …
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The Influence of Code-Switching and Code-Mixing on Learning English Language in Secondary Schools: The Case of Rombo District
This study investigated on the influence of using Code-Switching and Code-Mixing on learning English language in secondary schools in Rombo district, Tanzania. Specifically it strived to find out other causes of Code-Switching and Code-Mixing on learning English language, determine how …
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Terms of Status in Colloquial Cairene Arabic: A Study in Educational Linguistics
… here is framed within a research area of code-switching and code-mixing approach advocated by B. Kachru.
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A study in language contact
… the thesis examines three related concepts; code-switching, code-mixing and borrowing. It is based on theoretically and empirically founded distinctions between code-switching, code-mixing and borrowing. Empirically the data was collected surreptitiously. The ethical questions about who …
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Family language practices of Kazakh immigrant families in the United States
… their multilingual identity yields frequent code-switching and code-mixing language practices at home domain. The research provides a nuanced perspective on the diversity of Kazakh immigrants’ ethnolinguistic identity and family language patterns in the United States.
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Linguistic Change in a Language Contact Situation: A Cross-Generational Study
… tense distinction, borrowing and code-mixing. The results of the study generally confirm the first hypothesis. The second generation speakers were speaking a Spanish more or less comparable to that of the first generation, although the first generation spoke more Spanish. The data …
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Translanguaging practices used by lecturers in first year classrooms at a public university in Zambia.
… that the translanguaging practices included code switching between English and the Zambian local languages, content translation between English and the Zambian languages, giving examples using the local languages, code mixing when explaining concepts in the lecture rooms and allowing students …
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Translanguaging practices used by lecturers in first year classrooms at a public university in Zambia.
… that the translanguaging practices included code switching between English and the Zambian local languages, content translation between English and the Zambian languages, giving examples using the local languages, code mixing when explaining concepts in the lecture rooms and allowing students …
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Shifting family bilingualism: two South African case studies
… of English and Afrikaans characterised by code-switching, code-mixing and borrowings in the home. The Petersen family presents with intergenerational transmission and maintenance of Afrikaans from the mother and brothers to the younger daughters. ‘Teaching moments’ in this family, …
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Eish - when to use -ish-: a study in the verbalization of English lexical items in spoken Xhosa
… -ish- in their speech, they were not consciously code mixing: rather, they used these suffixes as just another resource available to them to make their communication more strategic. This could indicate that in certain urban settings the -ish- verbalizing suffix might become even more popular as …
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Language choice and preference in multilingual families: An analysis of code-switching between the first language and English by selected UNAM main campus lecturers and their families
… the practice of the linguistic behaviours of code-switching and code-mixing (if such do exist within the families). Furthermore, the enquiry also examines the factors influencing the lecturers’ families’ language practices in relation to language choice and preference. Adopting the mixed …
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English-only instruction: A comparative case-study of a rural and an urban basic school in Ghana
… and resisted by teachers. Teachers engage in code-switching, code-mixing and translation, and sometimes Twi dominated lessons in the classroom. I conclude that English-only language policy in Ghana does not work equally for the students in both schools. Although students in the Urban School …
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The effects of the use of chinyanja as medium of classroom instruction on reading levels of grade three learners in multilingual primary schools in Chilanga district, Lusaka.
… literacy using both Chinyanja and English by code switching and code mixing. The study further found that some primary schools in the sampled schools had a slight increase in reading levels while others had low reading levels. Generally, reading levels were still low in most schools sampled …
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The effects of the use of chinyanja as medium of classroom instruction on reading levels of grade three learners in multilingual primary schools in Chilanga district, Lusaka.
… literacy using both Chinyanja and English by code switching and code mixing. The study further found that some primary schools in the sampled schools had a slight increase in reading levels while others had low reading levels. Generally, reading levels were still low in most schools sampled …
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Afrikaans-English in the Western Cape : a descriptive socio-linguistic investigation
… level of proficiency in English. The use of code-switching and code-mixing techniques is also discussed in this chapter, with a brief look at the structural differences between English and Afrikaans. The last, and major, part of the thesis, chapters 5 and 6, is a detailed description of the …
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Quichua-Spanish language contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: revisiting media lengua syncretic language practices
… show how processes such as adlexification, code-mixing, and structural convergence produce Media Lengua-type sentences, evidence that supports an alternative analysis to Muysken’s relexification hypothesis. Overall, this dissertation is developed around four main objectives: (1) to describe …