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The case studies in this book are based on transcripts of classroom interaction in nine different countries. In each chapter, the first author explains the specific context and through a theoretical and/or experiential perspective interprets the transcript data. The data are then re-interpreted by other authors in the book, illustrating the complexity and richness of interpretation and creating a dialogue among the book’s contributors. At the end of each chapter, readers are then invited with assistance to join in the conversation by providing their own interpretations of other transcript data from the same context. The book will be useful for student teachers or practicing professionals, as well as all educators interested in exploratory classroom research.

Classroom environment --- Communication and education --- English language --- Interaction analysis in education --- Language and education --- Educational linguistics --- Education --- Language and languages --- Analysis, Interaction (Education) --- Interaction process analysis in education --- Teacher-pupil interaction --- Observation (Educational method) --- Social interaction --- Teacher-student relationships --- Verbal behavior --- Germanic languages --- Education and communication --- Classroom climate --- Climate, Classroom --- Environment, Classroom --- Classroom management --- School environment --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers --- classroom interaction. --- classroom transcripts. --- communities of learning. --- cultural practices. --- interpretive process. --- language education. --- language teachers.

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In the complex, multilingual societies of the 21st century, codeswitching is an everyday occurrence, and yet the use of students’ first language in the English language classroom has been consistently discouraged by teachers and educational policy-makers. This volume begins by examining current theoretical work on codeswitching and then proceeds to examine the convergence and divergence between university language teachers’ beliefs about codeswitching and their classroom practice. Each chapter investigates the extent of, and motivations for, codeswitching in one or two particular contexts, and the interactive and pedagogical functions for which alternative languages are used. Many teachers, and policy-makers, in schools as well as universities, may rethink existing ’English-only’ policies in the light of the findings reported in this book.

Code switching (Linguistics) --- College students --- English language --- College life --- Universities and colleges --- University students --- Students --- Language shift --- Switching (Linguistics) --- Bilingualism --- Linguistics --- Diglossia (Linguistics) --- Language. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Foreign speakers. --- Foreign students --- Education --- Germanic languages --- Script switching (Linguistics) --- East Asia. --- English language. --- codeswitching. --- medium of instruction. --- teacher cognition. --- university classrooms. --- university teachers.