Journal Article

Teachers’ Perception of Their Code-Switching Practices in English as a Foreign Language Classes: The Results of Stimulated Recall Interview and Conversation Analysis

Zainil, Yetti, Arsyad, Safnil

2021

Overview

Teachers often code-switch in the EFL classroom, but the question of whether or not they are aware of their code-switching has not been satisfactorily answered. This article presents the study on teachers’ understandings and beliefs about their code-switching practices in EFL classrooms as well as effective language teaching and learning. The participants of this study came from four junior high schools in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia: five teachers with their respective classes. This research used the conversation analysis and stimulated recall interviews to analyze the data which came from the video recording of classroom observations and the audio recording of stimulated recall interviews with teachers. The results revealed the pedagogical functions and affective functions of teacher’s code-switching. The data also showed that the use of stimulated recall interviews helped teachers to be consciously aware of their code-switching as well as of their other pedagogical practices in the language classroom. Therefore, stimulated recall interviews can be a useful tool for teacher self-reflection that they were not aware of their code switch. This awareness could be incorporated into language teacher professional development and in-service teacher professional learning.

• Publisher: SAGE Publications,SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC,SAGE Publishing
• Subject: Beliefs / Classes / Classroom observation / Classrooms / Code switching / Code Switching (Language) / Conversation analysis / English (Second Language) / English as a second language / English as a second language instruction / English language / Foreign Countries / Foreign languages / Interviews / Junior High School Teachers / Junior High Schools / Language / Language acquisition / Language Teachers / Language Usage / Learning / Middle schools / Pedagogy / Professional development / Professional training / Recall (Psychology) / Second Language Instruction / Second language teachers / Secondary schools / Self Evaluation (Individuals) / Selfreflection / Teacher Attitudes / Teacher education / Teachers / Teaching / Teaching Methods