An ethnographic study of English/Pilipino code-switching in bilingual classrooms in Manila

Legislation in 1974 replaced the former all-English curriculum in Philippine schools with a dual-language curriculum, with some subjects to be taught strictly in Pilipino and others entirely in English. Many people, not understanding the phenomenon of code-switching, believe that the new policy has encouraged the mixture of English and Pilipino. But how much code-switching actually takes place in schools, and under what conditions and for what purposes? Does the elite status of English have any effect? This study analyzes classroom interaction and code-switching in two private schools in the Metro Manila area, one prestigious and one less so, to discover answers to these and other questions.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Lim, Helen Rojas

Contributors dc:contributor

• Tozer, Steven E.

• Education, Language and Literature
• Education, Bilingual and Multicultural
• Language, Linguistics

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Lim, Helen Rojas

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9136661
(UMI)AAI9136661

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21036