EFL Learners opinions toward language altering at EFL classrooms

It s not unusual when bilinguals mix two languages when speaking in different languages. For better understanding of students language alteringmay be used in the classroom. Despite the importance of the phenomenon, the opinions of students toward teachers language alteringhave not been investigated in Iran. The main aim of this study was to identify the opinions of students toward teacher s language alteringand the advantages and disadvantages of code switching. The participants (n = 60) filled an 13 item questionnaire which is adopted from a study entitled the effect of Isizul/English language alteringas a medium of instruction on students performance and opinions toward biology (coolican,2004) to measure students opinions towards code switching. The analyzed data showed that it is a good tool for better understanding the subject. They also respected the teacher who code switch in the EFL classroom but some students believed that teaching in English is beneficial to them and speaking farsi is wasting the time.

Keywords:

Code –switching , bilingual context , classroom discourse , language opinion