The Philippines, like any other post-colonial country, is an environment where a diversity of languages exists. In a linguistically rich environment, Filipinos acquire a number of languages, English being one of them, in addition to the vernacular ang the national languages.code-switching is a broadly observed phenomenon especially in bilingual or multilingual communities, from single family units to large social groups. Studies concept in science use the term code switching to describe either bilingual/multilingual speakers’ or language learners’ cognitive linguistic abilities or to describe classroom or learner practices involving the use of more than one language. It can be exploited as a teaching method for teaching second languages or it can ease skills development as a means for providing language samples. Although, skills development is seen to be minimal and slow, code-switching is still perceived as a positive indication of the learning process.
By: Jerussell J. Suñga | Teacher II | BNHS