Papers by Khatuna Buskivadze
Functions and Frequency of Using Code-switching in the Georgian Educational Discourse
Spekali / სპეკალი (Ed Nana Gaprindashvili / სამეცნიერო რედაქტორი ნანა გაფრინდაშვილი)
Within the context of teaching English as a foreign language, code-switching – alternating betwee... more Within the context of teaching English as a foreign language, code-switching – alternating between two or more languages, in the context of a single conversation or situation – is a common practice. This article is the first to investigate the frequency and functions of code-switching by lecturers of general English language courses across two main universities in Tbilisi, Georgia. Building on existing literature [Myers-Scotton, 1993; Ferguson, 2003, etc.], this quantitative study uses survey responses from 92 lecturers and 220 students enrolled in general English courses at the university level in Georgia. The objective is to reveal (1) the frequency of code-switching used by the EFL (English as a foreign language) course lecturers in the higher education discourse; (2) the functions of using code-switching in the EFL course; (3) and the EFL course lecturers' and students’ attitudes towards lecturers’ code-switching behavior. Based on the results of the study, code-switching in...
Comparative Analysis of Grammatical and Pragmatic Functions of Contrastive Discourse Markers in Georgian and American Talk Show Discourse
Bilingual Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journal Spekali, Aug 23, 2021
International Journal of Multilingual Education, 2021
The aim of the present study is to investigate the sociolinguistic functions and frequency of Tea... more The aim of the present study is to investigate the sociolinguistic functions and frequency of Teacher’s Code Switching (CS) in the content and language integrated (CLIL) Lesson. Furthermore, our purpose is to reveal students’ and teacher’s attitudes towards teacher’s code-switching in CLIL lesson. After a brief review of the literature concerning CLIL and the issue of code-switching the case study of teaching Math (Educational discourse) in one of the private schools in Tbilisi will be outlined as data, gathered by means of anonymous questionnaires, which were administered among students in the abovementioned Math classes. Moreover, the qualitative research aims to single out the number of teacher’s CS examples and analyze the interview with math’s teacher. The results show that there are 36 cases of teacher using L1 (Georgian) in 10 lessons (9 hours). Math’s teacher’s CS behavior mostly serves (1) the conversational function of interjection; (2) the classroom functions of introduci...
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Papers by Khatuna Buskivadze