CODE-SWITCHING AND TRANSLANGUAGING IN THIRD LANGUAGE TEACHING OF GERMAN
CODE-SWITCHING AND TRANSLANGUAGING IN THIRD LANGUAGE TEACHING OF GERMAN

Summary/Abstract: Due to the fact that most of the previous research on code-switching deals with natural discourse, the tutorial situation has been chosen for the subject of this study because it is radically different from code-switching in natural discourse. In this study the investigated tutorial situation deals with linguistic code-switching and translanguaging in third language teaching of German.The study attempts to emphasize and describe the most remarkable features of code-switching and translanguaging as teaching strategies and also to identify their functions used by the teacher and to explain the reasons for them. Several explanations for code-switching in the beginner language classroom are relevant to the present study, including, for instance, topic switch, and affective and socializing functions which often interact together. The present study constitues a small-scale research of code-switching and translanguiging that sets out from a series of recordings taken on a weekly basis during two hours of German classes in the summer term 2014. The recordings present the classroom interaction between a Croatian German teacher and third year undergraduate students in the beginner foreign language classroom.

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