STUDY OF CODE SWITCHING AND BORROWING AMONG FIRST YEAR AND MASTER TWO ENGLISH STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITY OF IBN KHALDOUN – TIARET

Abstract

Algeria is a multilingual country which have different varieties : ( Algerian Arabic , Standard Arabic , Berber , French , English ) because of colonialism and educational system which lead to code switch and borrow between languages . This study aims to shed some light on the phenomenon of code switching and borrowing in Algeria , to be more precise in Tiaret speech community specially to university students (the English department). In Tiaret english students in the university of ibn khaldoun they use mixture of languages (arabic,algerian arabic ,french berber and also english) . English students use french english at the class room with teachers but outside the class room may be they use just algerian arabic and english and sometimes french also they use mixture of languages depending on the person background whom they are communicate with also there are berbers who use just french and kabyle with berber students among them but they use algerian arabic with students who are arabians. But in our study we just focus on the first year and master two English students and try to explore if the first year are code switching and borrowing the same as master two and the difference between them .