• Esmer Callangan-Baricaua

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• Dexter Pasion Dumayag

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• Delia Theresa Cancino-Escobar

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• Ruth M. Narag-Maguddayao

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Code switching and code mixing is a common phenomenon in classrooms. It has always been a
predicament among multilingual nations along language teaching and learning contexts. This
paper describes the socio-linguistic phenomenon among teachers and third year students
enrolled from the College of Information and Computing Sciences, Cagayan State University,
Philippines for SY 2017-2018. It investigates the specific purposes behind teacher’s code
switching/mixing along with their attitudes and the attitudes of the third year students. It aimed
to show that the code switching in the classroom is an important factor to help students learn
and participate actively in the discussion in a multi-dialectal and multi-cultural classroom.
Anchored to the theory of sociolinguistics [1], it is concerned with language in social and
cultural context, especially how people with different social identities speak and how their
speech changes in different scenarios. The data was collected through questionnaire, distributed
to 266 students. Anchored from the work of Alenezi (2010), “Students’ Languages Attitude
Towards Using Code- Switching as a Medium of Instruction in the College of Health Sciences:
An Exploratory Study, the data was analyzed via software program SPSS 20. The respondents’
attitudes towards code switching/mixing and their age, sex, and course were correlated.
Stratified random sampling was used to determine its population. The profile of the respondents
were determined using frequency count and percentage. Mean was used to describe Students’
language attitude towards using code switching/ mixing through English and other dialects of
code-switchers and the reasons for code switching; ANOVA and T- test were used to assess the
significant difference on the attitude when the respondents were grouped according to their
profile. Chi - square test was used to correlate Students’ language attitude towards using code
switching/ mixing as medium of instruction.

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