Code-switching Patterns in Early Bilinguals

The study finds the patterns of bilingual children s code-switching during conversation who acquired Bangla as their first language and English as a second language. The study takes a closer look at bilingual children s speech performances from two-word to telegraphic stage and finds if the code-switching patterns occur in an order during their speech development. It also presents the percentage of the frequency level of the occurred code-switching patterns, the fundamental triggers for code-switching, and the reasons behind the children s and parents code-switching. Code-switching is the central issue of bilingual research (Milroy, 1995, p. 7) and the study findings contribute more information on code-switching and early bilingualism.

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Tanzia Siddiqua is Linguistics major; the book's her 2nd publication on Code-switching. She studied from BAF Shaheen College Dhaka; completed BA (Hons.) from BRAC University in Applied Linguistics & ELT, a French Diploma from Alliance Française, an MA in Linguistics from NSU. She's a former teacher of BAF Shaheen College Dhaka and Scholastica Ltd.

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The study finds the patterns of bilingual children s code-switching during conversation who acquired Bangla as their first language and English as a second language. The study takes a closer look at bilingual children s speech performances from two-word to telegraphic stage and finds if the code-switching patterns occur in an order during their speech development. It also presents the percentage of the frequency level of the occurred code-switching patterns, the fundamental triggers for code-switching, and the reasons behind the children s and parents code-switching. Code-switching is the central issue of bilingual research (Milroy, 1995, p. 7) and the study findings contribute more information on code-switching and early bilingualism.