Code Switching and the influence of environment on Youth Language: Case study of L3 English language students in the department of letters and English language Belhadj Bouchaib

Abstract

The present research work focuses on the study of code switching in Belhadj Bouchaib University of Ain Temouchent in Algeria. Bilinguals employ code switching; it is a phenomenon that sociolinguists are very interested in. The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent and how often teenagers invent new terms and what motivates them to do so. This study aims to shed light on the factors that cause youth code switch, to that end a questionnaire and online observation were administered to third year English students at Ain Temouchent University as a research tool. The data analysis and the interpretation of the findings have indicated that third year students use code switching and mixed languages according to where they involved in a situation that required them to do so. Our extended essay consists of three chapters, the first chapter concerns the literature reviews, the second chapter concerns the data analysis and the last chapter concerns the main findings. At the end we formulated some suggestions and recommendations for students to improve their code switching because they probably lacks of vocabulary in the language.