Teachers’ code-switching in bilingual classrooms: exploring pedagogical and sociocultural functions

@article{Cahyani2018TeachersCI,
  title={Teachers’ code-switching in bilingual classrooms: exploring pedagogical and sociocultural functions},
  author={Hilda Cahyani and Mich{\`e}le de Courcy and Jenny Barnett},
  journal={International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism},
  year={2018},
  volume={21},
  pages={465 - 479}
}
ABSTRACT The pedagogical and sociocultural functions of teachers’ code-switching are an important factor in achieving the dual goals of content learning and language learning in bilingual programmes. This paper reports on an ethnographic case study investigating how and why teachers switched between languages in tertiary bilingual classrooms in Indonesia, where the main language of instruction was English. Data on code-switching were gathered in three classrooms over one semester, employing… 
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