Factors accelerating Code Switching-Mixing among Bilingual Students

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: A+, University of the Punjab (Institute of Education and Research), course: English, language: English, abstract: The aim of this study is to find the major factors that accelerate code switching/mixing among bilingual students in Lahore. These factors are divided into the categories of general, linguistic and language, social and situational factors. In this study the difference between these factors are also explored.

We used quantitative research approach in that we used instrument close ended questionnaires and data was collected from the students of University of the Punjab, Lahore. Data has been analyzed by use of software SPSS. Data analysis showed that there is a significance difference between language/linguistic factors and social/situational factors. The students switch/mix more due to language and linguistic factors as compared to social and situational factors.