Arabic-English Mixing among English-Language Students at Al alBayt University: A Sociolinguistic Study

Q1 Arts and Humanities

International Journal of Arabic-English Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI:10.33806/ijaes.v23i2.466

Reem Salah

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Abstract

Code mixing is extensively investigated within bilingual and multilingual communities. Its actual use in various social contexts and factors influencing its frequency are examined in the current study. A sample of students majoring in English language and literature who were enrolled in one or more of the researcher’s courses during the Spring semester 2021/2022 were asked to voluntarily participate in a 34-item online questionnaire about their use of code mixing (N=200). A two gender (female, male) x five academic years (first, second, third, fourth, fifth and more) x seven cumulative grade average (Distinguished, Excellent, Very good, Good, Pass, deficient, Prefer not to answer), and 5 dwelling (AlMafraq, AlZarqa, Amman, Irbid, Other city) multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) found significant four motivating factors on the frequency of code mixing amongst the participants: academic, linguistic, social, and psychological.

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阿尔拜特大学英语系学生阿英混合现象的社会语言学研究

在双语和多语言社区中对代码混合进行了广泛的调查。本研究考察了它在各种社会背景下的实际使用以及影响其频率的因素。在2021/2022年春季学期，英国语言和文学专业的学生被要求自愿参加一份关于他们使用代码混合的34项在线问卷（N=200）。两个性别（女性、男性）x五个学年（第一、第二、第三、第四、第五及以上）x七个累积平均成绩（杰出、优秀、非常好、良好、通过、有缺陷、不回答），和5个住宅（AlMafraq，AlZarqa，Amman，Irbid，Other city）的多变量方差分析（MANOVA）发现，参与者之间代码混合频率的四个显著激励因素：学术、语言、社会和心理。

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International Journal of Arabic-English Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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期刊介绍： The aim of this international refereed journal is to promote original research into cross-language and cross-cultural studies in general, and Arabic-English contrastive and comparative studies in particular. Within this framework, the journal welcomes contributions to such areas of interest as comparative literature, contrastive textology, contrastive linguistics, lexicology, stylistics, and translation studies. The journal is also interested in theoretical and practical research on both English and Arabic as well as in foreign language education in the Arab world. Reviews of important, up-to- date, relevant publications in English and Arabic are also welcome. In addition to articles and book reviews, IJAES has room for notes, discussion and relevant academic presentations and reports. These may consist of comments, statements on current issues, short reports on ongoing research, or short replies to other articles. The International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES) is the forum of debate and research for the Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities (APETAU). However, contributions from scholars involved in language, literature and translation across language communities are invited.