The Role of Codeswitching in Children's Language Acquisition

Abstract

This dissertation provides an introduction concerning the role codeswitching has in a child's language acquisition. The main aim of this research is to highlight the strategies that parents employ to assist their children’s first and second languages development at the home environment. In this research, we opt for a quantitative approach to conduct the study and we chose a questionnaire as a tool for data collection. The questionnaire aims at exploring the parental attitude to support the child’s first and second language development. The analysis of the data shows that daily communication at home and incorporating a second language into a child’s daily routine are very important strategies that parents use for child language development.