Classroom Code Switching of English Language Teachers at Tertiary Level: A Bangladeshi Perspective

Classroom code switching is a common scenario in many multi lingual and multicultural classes. In a monolingual country like Bangladesh, classroom code switching has some distinctive attributes. As a part of the global transformation in the methods and techniques of English language teaching, we need to consider classroom code switching as a fact which cannot be ignored in any way especially in a country like Bangladesh where English is taught as a foreign language. In most of the cases Bangladeshi students tend to switch codes, but it is also common in teachers’ discourse. This paper aims to focus on the reasons for teachers’ code switching and the attitude of the teachers and students towards classroom code switching. A survey was…