Conversation Analysis of Code-Switched Repair Sequences in the Educational Context

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The paper considers Anglo-Kazakh code-switching in the repair sequences among first-year students majoring in “Foreign language: two foreign languagesâ€. The study was conducted at Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana, Kazakhstan. Some specific characteristics of educational policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan are analysed. The results show that code-switching in repair sequences is used as: a) self-initiated self-repair; b) self-initiated other-repair; and c) candidate understanding. Repair initiation when code-switching happens to understand, to confirm and to clarify statements. Due to the specific linguistic situation of Kazakhstan, code-switching in the FL classroom may occur from English to Kazakh, or from English to Russian, depending on dominance of the language in the linguistic repertoire of the speaker.

 

Keywords: Conversation analysis; Code-switching; Repair 

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Conversation Analysis of Code-Switched Repair Sequences in the Educational Context. (2017). New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(5). Retrieved from https://un-pub.eu/ojs/index.php/pntsbs/article/view/1110
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Vol. 2 No. 5 (2016): Selected Papers of 4th Cyprus International Conference on Educational Research (CYICER-2015)
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