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Code-switching and Discourse Marking: The Case of the Anxious Cebuano-Visayan Teacher-Interns

Maria Dolores Paculanang

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Anxious speech among teacher-interns may sound disturbing and may affect comprehension especially among their students. Understanding its occurrence in the classroom also requires a more in-depth knowledge of its sources and potential triggers. As interns experience anxiety, they either code switch or use discourse markers in their classes. However, in alternating between English and their Cebuano-Visayan first language/another non-Cebuano-Visayan native language, the interns account for its usefulness. This paper, therefore, presents a description of code-switching and use of discourse markers in an anxious speech during the interns’ actual teaching in the city schools division of Dumaguete City, Philippines.  By using textual analysis of transcripts, the study revealed that code-switching renders certain usefulness despite the anxiety during teaching. Implications drawn from results suggest maintaining a less hypercritical atmosphere in the classroom that may trigger teacher-training students’ fear in speaking.  Future research on other functions of code-switching among would-be teachers may also be pursued.

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@article{maria2017,
  title        = {{Code-switching and Discourse Marking: The Case of the Anxious Cebuano-Visayan Teacher-Interns}},
  author       = {Maria Dolores Paculanang},
  journal      = {PRism},
  year         = {2017},
}

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0.46

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.29 × 0.4 = 0.11
M · momentum0.80 × 0.15 = 0.12
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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