The present paperinvestigates how code-switching by the English teachers in a graduation level classroom has proved to be a student-friendly strategy which helps the learners shed fear of the subject and inhibitions to express themselves. The paper attempts, through questionnaires, personal observations and interviews, to get a deeper understanding of the English teachers’ ideas and opinions about the use of mother tongue in the classroom.
The author in this paper, aims to establish the positive role of code switching even in graduation level where the majority of the students are from vernacular medium having low English proficiency level. The author will also like to discuss some of the strategies the teachers have experimented in the above mentioned class which can be attempted for the communication practice of the students.
Communicative english, code-switching, linguistic, proficiency, strategies
