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1、MalaysianJournalOfELTResearchISSN:1511-8002Vol.6,2010CodeSwitchingintheTeachingofEnglishasaSecondLanguagetoSecondarySchoolStudentsHyginusLesterJuniorLeeSekolahMenengahKebangsaanMutiaraLabuan,MalaysiaAbstractItiswidelyacknowledgedthattheuseoftwoormorelanguag
2、esinthesameconversationorutteranceoccursinmanybilingualormultilingualcommunities.Thetermusedtodefinesuchoccurrencesiscodeswitching.Linguistsaroundtheworld(Gardner-Chloros,1997;Wardhaugh,1998;Holmes,2001;Ayeomoni,2006)regardcodeswitchingasacommonandnon-isola
3、tedphenomenon.InMalaysia,codeswitchingisnotanexceptionasthediversityoflanguagesspokenbythevariousracesofpeoplecontributestothelinguisticpractice.Previousstudies(Kow,2003;Then&Ting,2009)showthatcodeswitchingoccursinformalclassroomsettings.Relatingcodeswitchi
4、ngtopresentpracticesintheMalaysianschoolsystem,thisstudyinvestigatestheattitudesofteachersandthetypesandfunctionsofcodeswitchingemployedbyEnglishlanguageteachersinsecondaryschools.ItalsoreportsonhowcodeswitchingaffectsthedeliveryoftheEnglishlanguagecurricul
5、um.Atotalof42Englishlanguageteacherswereselectedasrespondentsforthisstudy.Respondentswererequiredtocompleteasurveyquestionnairebyindicatingtheirattitude,usageandopinionofcodeswitchingintheclassroom.Thefindingsindicatethatthemajorityofteachershavepositiveatt
6、itudestowardscodeswitching.Theyonlycodeswitchintimesofneed.Teachersalsobelievethatcodeswitchinghasaroletoplayinfacilitatingsecondlanguagelearning.Keywords:codeswitching;ESL;classroom;Labuan;Malaysia.CodeSwitchingintheTeachingofEnglishasaSecondLanguagetoSeco
7、ndarySchoolStudents2IntroductionInMalaya’sjourneytowardsindependence,Englishwasmadecompulsoryinallschools(Foo&Richards,2004).Vernacularschools(Malay,ChineseandTamilmediumschools)wereexemptedduetoinsufficientnumbersofEnglishlanguageteachers.Theimportanceofth
8、elanguagewassalientasitwasproclaimedtheofficiallanguageofthecountryfortenyearsafterindependence,from1957to1967.BahasaMalaysiawasthenationallanguage.WiththeintroductionoftheLanguageActof1967,thestatusof
