Survey Data:

In a survey of 96 students when asked does code-switching make life easier 57% said they don't know and 15% said yes and no. 64 of the people were female and 32 were male.
















In a group of children that included 64 girls and 32 boys the most common answer was neutral with 55 people to the statement I feel angry when a friend of mine code-switches languages. The second most common was disagree with 20 children, agree was 10 students, strongly agree was 6 while strongly disagree was 5.

Published Source

My first source is a book called "Half Half." It is a book filled with short life memoirs about biracial and bi-cultural people. Although the stories of these people were different it always compared America to another country and culture. The people usually felt more in touch or connected to the other country. So at the end of the novel the book basically stated that between feeling more identified with the USA or another country they felt more identified with the other country in culture, language, traditions, etc....even if they were born in the US. An example is Roxane Formanfarmaian said " Such intimate details I knew about Utah, too, and still I did not feel the same sense of belonging there." When she was talking about her life in both Utah and Iran.

The article on Wikipedia talks about what code-switching is, It talks about the mechanics of code-switching. It also talks about the types and examples of code-switching like from Spanish to English. In one example they had a girl state" but you can ask mami and papi to see if you could come down." It sates the motivation of codes-witching like your community and ethnicity as some examples. The article tells you all about code-switching from the definition to examples to reasons why people do it.

Research Questions

Why do bilingual people code-switch languages? What do friends of people who code-switch languages feel when their peer is code-switching languages? Who mainly code-switches language and how? In what settings is code-switching appropriate and inappropriate?

Code switching's effect on you

This topic is about how code-switching effects on you and your social life. code-switching is when you switch from one thing to another wether it is in culture, language, dialect, or friendships. code-switching effects not only you but the people who are around you, that makes it effect your social life too. In this case we are talking about language code-switching. I chose this topic because as a bilingual person myself, I wanted to know the reasons for code-switching and how it effectes you socially.


I belive that the main reason people code-switch is so they can fit into society a bit easier. If they acted and talked like that certain group then there social life would go a whole lot more smoother. I know that most bilingual people code-switch there language to make it easier in there lifes. I want to learn what the reasons for code-switching are and if they really effect our social lifes in a negative or positive way. I also want to learn what the reactions of peers are when there friends code-switch languages in front of them.