Code-switching amongst English-Spanish Bilinguals

Okay, good afternoon. My name is Melissa salary Rivera.

And in this video I'm going to explain a

little bit more about my research for my research,

I choose the topic that is called switching amongst english spanish bilinguals.

So what I'm trying to explain in my research is the pattern is the patterns that they

believe that the english spanish bilingual used to change

from or to mix from one language to another

without any problems.

Well, first I am going to explain a little bit more about what is bilingualism,

what is called switching?

So

what is bilingualism?

We can define released bilingualism as

the ability that one person have when or the ability

to speak to two different languages fluently in different situations.

Well, that means a person who can explain,

who can speak two languages be without any pope any problem with in any conversation

around the world exceeds a lot of

bilinguals community.

This is the case, for example, of Canada, in Canada, in Canada,

we know that they doesn't have an official language so they speak

french or english,

it's for that they say that Canada is a bit in what country?

Um

um

um in the patterns that they are going to use to change from

english to french without any problems is what we call code switch.

So

code switching is the pattern that the bilingual super league loads

used

used to change from

one language to another or to to talk to

different languages in a conversation without any problems.

This code switching could be affected by the society,

the way that they speak of the or also by the norms of the speech communities.

Okay.

Um, here in latin America when we're speaking about english, spanish bilinguals,

hidden latin America exists that we don't, we can, we don't have a country that

specifically it's believable, but that exists a lot of people that are believable

and

and also exists a problem that they think

and called code switching like expand wish that that's wrong.

Lesley paper ph of the Harvard University

say that code switching

is the use of a pattern of a pattern to change from one

language to another to another or to mix two languages without any problem.

While while Spanglish is they use what is the

creation of a new world mixing english and spanish

and this new world doesn't have any meaning

in both languages.

Okay,

well, um,

I found a video in Youtube that explain better what it's trying to say that explain

whether the code switching that they used in

the spanish in in english and spanish re lingual

in this video is interested in terrorism because it's the interview

uh, three Children

bilinguals in english and spanish.

But this is the case of taylor at two years old girl born in America bad

with

latin american parents

calum the same. Born in five years old boy.

Born in Latin America with, sorry born in America with latin american parents

and the case of Monica,

it's eight years old girl born in Panama,

but at the age of five she moved to at the age of five she moved to

America with with his with

his parents.

Okay

when we sell the video

uh, without that it's the interview.

It's an interview that they're making in both languages.

Well in this case the adult, the person who gives the interview

Ask some questions to the three Children, the three guys

and the answer

well in this question he makes what is english and spanish and we

can see that the three Children's answer the question without any problems.

They can understand the language and they can under

they can't answer without any problem in both languages

here,

what we're in this interview the adult the

person who gives the interview use what we call

in code is reaching back is reaching

what target switching is a switch that or a pattern.

The bilingual people

in this case they had to use

to change from one language to another

using only a word or a sentence

in the content in the context that they are speaking

in the case of the video

we can see that the adult use a book that had that and in the book they are animals,

colors and

a lot of things. Well and then the question literally while what they want

to what they want that the Children to to explain what what they what they what they

are in the book so we can we can watch that the person start asking for example,

in the case of taylor,

which color is that

you can open the window

and then

instantaneously he changed the you text switching in the same

context and he changed from english to spanish and say

Kenny Malone

keep coming.

And then we use the same pattern to change from spanish to english

and what is banana,

What is the color of the vanilla?

So in that case we can see the pattern that they,

that the adult use to change from one language to another without any problems.

And the kids in the, in the kids in the interview,

answer the question without any problems.

The same is the case of tulum

Taylor and taylor and in this case they

speak more like english. They answer more in english

while Monica answer more in spanish,

What is that,

where the coldest region

exists. To theorists that I'm proposed by Caroline Meyers, pescado,

that is the market market nets. And the matrix language frame theory

specifically in summarized these,

these two theorists say that the bilingual people and the political ads also has uh,

has uh,

have a language metrics

that is the language that is the

language that they use more, is the language that the society speak,

is the language in which

they feel more comfortable to tell.

In this case we can see

and explain very good these theories,

we can, we can watch that taylor and talon,

they feel more comfortable speaking english and they

answer more of the question in english knowing that

they can speak both languages and they feel

more comfort and they can answer in this boat

this is because the both, well both both guys were both Children born in America.

So the society plays an important role inside of this call

this region and they feel more comfortable and they feel more comfortable

speaking english in a conversation.

And in the case of Monica, the language matrix is spanish because as you know,

he born in Panama so they feel more comfortable to

speak in spanish because at the age of five,

he only speaking spanish then moved to America and in America and in english that

that

she feels comfortable speaking english for the society but they don't,

she wasn't speaking,

she don't want to speak the language because

she feels more comfortable speaking the language.

Then the first language that learn

that is spanish

well with this risk

with all this information that a graph

I came to the conclusion,

the code switching occurs in a bilingual speech

um in a bilingual speech even and even at the month

in in intimate level we can say

and and that the society plays an important role in these changes,

but like I said,

the society plays an important role in this changes like like

it's in the case of Monica on the case of talent.

Um

um taylor.

Okay. Um

also in addition it illustrated the bilingual speaker

can to me like a double sino

at the moment. There at the moment of the change when they want to change this,

we can say what they want to change this conversation, the conversation,

the language conversation,

they use the pattern and they admit like a

double sign in and before to change the panther.

So in this case the other person they're dealing with,

the other bilingual person

can realize and kind of start to

can start well they start to speak in the order language that they want.

This is why because are the patterns or what? Because that is the code switching.

And also I came to the conclusion that

code switching is a great tool for teach and for practical

for practice languages because not only works in in bilingual people.

Also also well in political ads and for the people that are learning this language

because with code switching you can change from one language

to another and you can practice this to these languages.

Doesn't care if you know, if you speak fluent or not,

you can change this language and in the in the in this way you are going to practice

your you are going to practice their foreign language

that you are speaking or that you are learning

the same for political,

the political,

you know that the political, see the person who can speak more than two languages.

So to practice the other these other languages,

he can start and have a conversation

with another public man or another public person

and start to change and start to use.

Patterns are called switching to change from

one conversation from one language to another

in

in order in order to practice these languages and do not work and don't forget.

So that's all of my

research. I hope that sounds interesting

and

I hope that you like it.

So that's all have a good night, everyone.

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