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LECTURERS’ AND STUDENTS’ BELIEFS IN CODE-SWITCHING: A MALAYSIAN POLYTECHNIC CONTEXT

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This research is to discover whether lecturers’ beliefs coincide with
their practices in their daily teaching. The focus will be on the belief in the use
of code-switching in the classroom. At the same time, it is also worthwhile to
indicate whether there are differences in the beliefs between the lecturers and
the students. For that purpose three lecturers from an engineering department
of a polytechnic in a northern region as well as the students in the classrooms
were chosen to participate in this research. The methods designed include
classroom observations, questionnaires for both the lecturers and students, and
interviews with the lecturers after the classroom observation. The findings
showed that the lecturers mostly used reiteration and message qualification
functions when code-switching. They believed that it was intended mainly to
enhance their students’ understanding and to save their time from lengthy explanation
whenever the students are in doubt. This was agreeable by most students
as they believed that code-switching could help them understand the lessons
better. Some recommendations are made based on the findings and analysis
of the results, expecting that it would further improve the teaching of Mathematics,
Science and technical subjects in the Malaysian polytechnics.
Keywords: code-switching, Malaysian polytechnic, teachers’ beliefs, students’
beliefs, ETeMS (English in the Teaching of Mathematics and Science)

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No. Panggil

420 MAZ l

Penerbit

Newzealand : TEFLIN Journal,., 2015

Deskripsi Fisik

12 hlm.; 20 cm.

Bahasa

English

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420

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

vol. 26 no.1

Subjek

Politik Pemerintahan

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Mazlin Mohamed Mokhtar

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