Codeswitching among Trilingual Maghreb International Students: Maghreb-Arabic, French, English

This article reports on a study of the codeswitches produced by three Maghreb Arabic-French-English adult speakers in their informal conversation. The corpus of the data consists of natural data collected by means of audio-recording. The researcher undertook a quantitative analysis of the participa...

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Main Author: Ahmad Awawdeh
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Published: Center of Language and Culture Studies, Surakarta, Indonesia 2024-01-01
Series:IJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics)
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Online Access:https://ijotl-tl.soloclcs.org/index.php/ijoltl/article/view/772
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description This article reports on a study of the codeswitches produced by three Maghreb Arabic-French-English adult speakers in their informal conversation. The corpus of the data consists of natural data collected by means of audio-recording. The researcher undertook a quantitative analysis of the participants’ codeswitches to examine the frequency, patterns and linguistic combinations of these codeswitches. The findings revealed that participants engaged in multilingual communication, with a preference for Maghreb Arabic, though they demonstrated proficiency in French and English. While CS occurred at varying rates among participants, the study identified diverse and complex CS patterns, including both intrasentential and intersentential switches. Notably, participants frequently alternated languages within their turns, with the majority of switches occurring between Maghreb Arabic and French, as well as Maghreb Arabic and English. However, about 12.7% of intrasentential switches involved all three languages. This study offers trilingual data that researchers can use for comparative analyses and reference in their own investigations.
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spelling doaj-art-e284fd2479ae4302a56f55d571ef70792025-08-20T02:56:58ZengCenter of Language and Culture Studies, Surakarta, IndonesiaIJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics)2502-23262502-82782024-01-019110.30957/ijoltl.v9i1.772Codeswitching among Trilingual Maghreb International Students: Maghreb-Arabic, French, EnglishAhmad Awawdeh0University of Pannonia This article reports on a study of the codeswitches produced by three Maghreb Arabic-French-English adult speakers in their informal conversation. The corpus of the data consists of natural data collected by means of audio-recording. The researcher undertook a quantitative analysis of the participants’ codeswitches to examine the frequency, patterns and linguistic combinations of these codeswitches. The findings revealed that participants engaged in multilingual communication, with a preference for Maghreb Arabic, though they demonstrated proficiency in French and English. While CS occurred at varying rates among participants, the study identified diverse and complex CS patterns, including both intrasentential and intersentential switches. Notably, participants frequently alternated languages within their turns, with the majority of switches occurring between Maghreb Arabic and French, as well as Maghreb Arabic and English. However, about 12.7% of intrasentential switches involved all three languages. This study offers trilingual data that researchers can use for comparative analyses and reference in their own investigations. https://ijotl-tl.soloclcs.org/index.php/ijoltl/article/view/772codeswitching, trilingualism, quantitative approach, Maghreb-Arabic, multilingual communication
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Codeswitching among Trilingual Maghreb International Students: Maghreb-Arabic, French, English
IJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics)
codeswitching, trilingualism, quantitative approach, Maghreb-Arabic, multilingual communication
title Codeswitching among Trilingual Maghreb International Students: Maghreb-Arabic, French, English
title_full Codeswitching among Trilingual Maghreb International Students: Maghreb-Arabic, French, English
title_fullStr Codeswitching among Trilingual Maghreb International Students: Maghreb-Arabic, French, English
title_full_unstemmed Codeswitching among Trilingual Maghreb International Students: Maghreb-Arabic, French, English
title_short Codeswitching among Trilingual Maghreb International Students: Maghreb-Arabic, French, English
title_sort codeswitching among trilingual maghreb international students maghreb arabic french english
topic codeswitching, trilingualism, quantitative approach, Maghreb-Arabic, multilingual communication
url https://ijotl-tl.soloclcs.org/index.php/ijoltl/article/view/772
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