Arabic, French, English Code Switching among Students in English Department of Tlemcen University

Abstract

This present work is intended to analysis the Arabic, French, English a code switching situation, in the case of the English department in Tlemcen university. This scope, aims to seek factors or raisons that push master two English students to switch during their daily conversations inside department, between Arabic, French and English, and to explore some of the sociolinguistics phenomena of language, such as Dialect, Bilingualism, code-mixing, Borrowing, and espacially Code-switching. This modest work aimes to examine the sociolinguistics situation in Algeria, which is well known by its sociolinguistics diversity. Which gives birth to many linguistic outcomes: Bilingualism, Diglossia, Borrowing, Code-switching. All these notions will be examined briefly in this work. In order to examine the factors that make master two English students switch between Arabic, French, English, we will use a questionnaire which encompass 10 questions. The general findings of this sociolinguistic investigation will be given in the general conclusion