ATTITUDES TOWARDS TEACHERS’ CODE-SWITCHING IN GEORGIAN EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE

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  • Khatuna Buskivadze

Abstract

Based upon the theories of sociolinguistics, the article examines students’ and teachers’ attitudes towards teachers’ code choice and analyses the features and functions of teachers’ code- switching (CS) in the context of the Georgian educational discourse (practice research, teaching English for specific purposes (ESP). The article presents the results of quantitative research. The study of teachers’ code- switching in the ESP classroom reveals that code switching is extensively employed by business English teachers. Teachers, as well as students, have a negative attitude towards teachers using L1 in Business English classes. CS is positively encouraged by less than a half of the students surveyed.

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Author Biography

Khatuna Buskivadze

The Author of the research is a PhD student at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Humanities, researching Code-switching in Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics. She is a CELTA-qualified teacher (Certificate in English Language for Adults). She has been working at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University as an ESP (Medical English) teacher since 2018 and at Ilia State University as an invited English lecturer of General English course since 2016. Khatuna has been teaching EFL and ESP (Tourism) at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University since 2020.

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Published

2021-06-28

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Buskivadze, K. (2021). ATTITUDES TOWARDS TEACHERS’ CODE-SWITCHING IN GEORGIAN EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE. Online Journal of Humanities ETAGTSU, (6), pages 11. Retrieved from https://etagtsu.tsu.ge/index.php/journal/article/view/39

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No. 6 (2021)

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