Investigating the Use of Target Language and Mother Tongue Switching amongst EFL Students between Communicative Deficiencies and Desires.

Abstract

This Enquiry focuses on Code-Switching as its primary subject matter. Students engaged with English as a foreign language (EFL) at Ibn Khaldoun University Tiaret at the English Departement. The analytical descriptive methodology and the content analysis method were used in this investigation. The following processes were employed in order to collect the required dataA questionnaire was distributed to 100 randomly selected students. Ten master's students from the English Department Yard were also interviewed using a structured interview method. In fact, a mixed-method approach is employed, which means both qualitative and quantitative methodologies are used. During the interview, the students switched between several coding languages to compensate for any inadequacies or gaps in their mastery of the English language. For this dissertation, the various perspectives are being investigated and practiced by students regarding the aforementioned phenomenon. According to the data gathered, the usage of code-switching is primarily due to the students' communicative deficiencies in the target language. In other terms, a shortage of English linguistic components may be the source of switching between the target and mother tongue.