The Use of Code-switching in Tele-collaboration between Teachers and their Supervisees:

Abstract

The present research attempts to investigate the use of code-switching in telecollaboration. It initially aims at exploring whether code-switching is a helpful strategy in the teaching-learning process generally and among/between teachers and their supervisees specifically. Besides, it endeavors to know the reasons behind both teachers and students’ use of code switching in both verbal communication and non-verbal communication (i.e. in electronic writing). More than that, it attempts to know teachers’ and learners’ views and attitudes towards code-switching with respect to the topic in question. To this end, the study adopts a set of research approaches and tools; it employs the quantitative descriptive method that aims at getting valuable data from teachers’ and students’ questionnaires. The sample of the present investigation consists of fifty-two (52) Master two LMD students and thirty (30) teachers at the department of English, 8 Mai 1945, Guelma. The emerging results confirm the main hypothesis which implies that the use of code-switching in tele-collaboration would affect collaboration between teachers and their supervisees positively; which calls both teachers and students to be aware of the importance of tele-collaboration in the teaching-learning process, without forgetting the big role of code-switching in facilitating and creating a positive atmosphere for learners to collaborate and learn the foreign languages in an effective way.