code-switching

code-switch

1. To alternate between two or more languages while speaking. My mom grew up in Quebec, and though she speaks English fluently now, she still sometimes code-switches back to French mid-sentence.
2. To change one's language or manner of speaking or communication to match one's current environment or audience. Many African Americans spend their whole life code-switching. Sorry for the tween slang—I tend to code-switch when I'm around my kids.

code-switching

1. The act or practice of alternating between two or more languages while speaking. My mom grew up in Quebec, and though she speaks English fluently now, she's prone to code-switching back to French mid-sentence.
2. The act or practice of changing one's language or manner of speaking or communication to match one's current environment or audience. Code-switching is an inherent part of African-American culture. Code-switching is a big part of communicating with my kids—I try to use the terms they know.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a turn of phrase
  • appear to
  • a change of heart
  • a mystery to (one)
  • able to do
  • able to do it
  • a shoulder to cry on
  • a piece of the action
  • a piece/slice of the action
  • bit of the action
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Social Aspects of Code-switching In Bilingual Children
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Other people's english: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American literacy and survivance, sovereignty, and story: Teaching American Indian rhetorics
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Chapter 8--Code-switching and contrastive analysis: Tools of language and culture transform the dialectically diverse classroom, for example, presents strategies of contrastive analysis and code-switching (style-shifting) to show how the language of a child's home community can be maintained while simultaneously adding the linguistic tools needed for success in broader society (Wheeler & Swords, 2015, p.
Review--social diversity within multiliteracies: complexity in teaching and learning
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