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Communicative Competence in Virtual Environments Code-Switching

Abstract:

This present research is expected to describe the relationship between “codeswitching and the communicative competence,” considering the switching from English to Spanish in EFL classrooms. The present study was conducted in about 3.5 months and 5 h per week. This examination was coordinated using a qualitative-quantitative methodology by administering a validated questionnaire to about one hundred and forty respondents from the target population. The purpose of this questionnaire was to analyze the usage of codeswitching and its contribution to the communicative competence. The subjects of the questionnaire were university students of the first, second and third semesters and teachers of the Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages (PINE) program at the Technical University of Ambato. To analyze all the data collected efficiently the IBM SPSS software was used to obtain the most genuine and assertive results. Thinking about the results of the present investigation, it can be seen that the use of codeswitching in ELF classrooms aids the communicative competence, since students see codeswitching as a tool that allows them to have a better communication both between classmates and with their teachers together.