Arabic/French code switching in Tlemcen Speech Community, case of Students’ French Department.

Abstract

This work is a sociolinguistic study of code switching in Algeria taking the students of Tlemcen University as a case in point. By giving a questionnaire to random sample in Abou Bakr Belkaid University, French department, the 25 informants (girls and boys) show their attitudes and feelings towards French. The results show that students master both languages, and using French as a part of their speech related to their personality and culture identity because the using of French is a habit in communication and sometimes related to the situation.