🎓 Academic English majors, halp! (thesis)

[jhnnlasnts]

So, we're focusing on the teachers' use of code-switching and its positive effects to the learners of ESL. Our problem now (since last week) is, what model or theory are we going to use in our Theoritical framework. Can you suggest me a name of theorists who support Code-Switching in classroom? Also, what model can we use to support our study. It's givin' us a hard time kasi. Thanks!

PS: I need no non-sense comments (magresearch ka, iGoogle mo, etc. for we all did those)

 

[Professora Akira]

How about hoffsman and vigotzkian theory..

 

[capslocked]

I googled and I found this.

Poplack's model
You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.'s model of code-switching is the best known theory of the underlying grammar of code-switching.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. In this model, code-switching is subject to two constraints. The free-morpheme constraint stipulates that code-switching cannot occur between a lexical stem and bound morphemes. Essentially, this constraint distinguishes code-switching from borrowing. Generally, borrowing occurs in the lexicon, while code-switching occurs at either the syntax level or the utterance-construction level.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. The equivalence constraint predicts that switches occur only at points where the surface structures of the languages coincide, or between sentence elements that are normally ordered in the same way by each individual grammar.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. For example, the sentence: "I like you porque eres simpático" ("I like you because you are nice") is allowed because it obeys the syntactic rules of both Spanish and English.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. Cases like the noun phrases the casa white and the blanca house are ruled out because the combinations are ungrammatical in at least one of the languages involved. Spanish noun phrases are made up of determiners, then nouns, then adjectives, while the adjectives come before the nouns in English noun phrases. The casa white is ruled out by the equivalence constraint because it does not obey the syntactic rules of English, and the blanca house is ruled out because it does not follow the syntactic rules of Spanish.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.


Your topic is quite interesting TS. update us on your findings/conclusion, I personally love this kind of topic.

 

[jhnnlasnts]

I googled and I found this.

Poplack's model
You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.'s model of code-switching is the best known theory of the underlying grammar of code-switching.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. In this model, code-switching is subject to two constraints. The free-morpheme constraint stipulates that code-switching cannot occur between a lexical stem and bound morphemes. Essentially, this constraint distinguishes code-switching from borrowing. Generally, borrowing occurs in the lexicon, while code-switching occurs at either the syntax level or the utterance-construction level.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. The equivalence constraint predicts that switches occur only at points where the surface structures of the languages coincide, or between sentence elements that are normally ordered in the same way by each individual grammar.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. For example, the sentence: "I like you porque eres simpático" ("I like you because you are nice") is allowed because it obeys the syntactic rules of both Spanish and English.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. Cases like the noun phrases the casa white and the blanca house are ruled out because the combinations are ungrammatical in at least one of the languages involved. Spanish noun phrases are made up of determiners, then nouns, then adjectives, while the adjectives come before the nouns in English noun phrases. The casa white is ruled out by the equivalence constraint because it does not obey the syntactic rules of English, and the blanca house is ruled out because it does not follow the syntactic rules of Spanish.You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.


Your topic is quite interesting TS. update us on your findings/conclusion, I personally love this kind of topic.

Poplack's is way too broad for our focus that's why we decided to use Vygotsky's Scaffolding theory and will relate it to CS. I will update you about our results after defense

 

[capslocked]

Poplack's is way too broad for our focus that's why we decided to use Vygotsky's Scaffolding theory and will relate it to CS. I will update you about our results after defense

Goodluck on your defense. Be sure to review your theoritical framework, abstract, problems and even the spacing of paragraph. lol.

And of course serve the panel a snacks, provide them with a delicious but full of icing cake so that they wont ask numerous questions. lol