A comparative study of students’ attitude towards EFL teachers’ code-switching/code-mixing to L1: A case of commerce and english discipline students

In today's globalizing word, integration of two languages is a frequent experience. In most of the cases English language is being mixed with some other language. This phenomenon of mixing two languages is termed as code-switching/code-mixing in linguistics. The present study is a comparative analysis of students’ attitudes towards this particular phenomenon of two disciplines; commerce and English. The present study integrates quantitative research design to assess students’ attitude towards code-switching/code-mixing to L1 by their EFL teachers using a close-ended questionnaire. From the findings of the study, the present study concludes that students of commerce hold a positive attitude towards EFL teachers code-switching/code-mixing to L1 but the students of English Department have somewhat negative attitude towards it.