Code-switching and Gender in SMS Texting
The Case of Algerian EFL Students
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With the noted advancement of mobile phone technologies, SMS texting emerged as a perfectly new mode of communication that challenges the conventional rules of standard languages. To gain insights into SMS newly-adopted language, the present work overarching goal was to look into Algerian EFL students' SMS texting practices. Given the texters' multilingual context, code-switching and language choice in gendered groups were examined. The study showed similar code-switching behaviours among male and female texters. As for language choice, the data revealed males and females using languages diffe...
With the noted advancement of mobile phone technologies, SMS texting emerged as a perfectly new mode of communication that challenges the conventional rules of standard languages. To gain insights into SMS newly-adopted language, the present work overarching goal was to look into Algerian EFL students' SMS texting practices. Given the texters' multilingual context, code-switching and language choice in gendered groups were examined. The study showed similar code-switching behaviours among male and female texters. As for language choice, the data revealed males and females using languages differently and for different reasons.
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