%0 Journal Article
%T The Impact of Regional Differences on Elementary School Teachers' Attitudes Towards Their Students' Use of Code Switching in a South Texas School District El impacto de las diferencias regionales en las actitudes de docentes de primaria respecto a la alternancia de c車digos por parte de los estudiantes en un distrito escolar del sur de Texas
%A Guadalupe Nancy Nava G車mez
%A Hilda Garc赤a
%J Profile Issues in Teachers` Professional Development
%D 2012
%I Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%X This study focused on investigating whether the teachers' geographical distribution influences their attitudes towards their students' use of code switching. The study was guided by the following research question: Are there differences between teachers' opinions of the north elementary schools and teachers' opinions of the south elementary schools, which are predominantly Hispanic, towards their students' use of code switching? If so, why? A twenty-item structured survey was utilized. The population consisted of 279 elementary school teachers at seven Northern and seven Southern schools in the same South Texas region. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics. Findings showed that Southern teachers had more prejudices towards code switching than those from the North, who were more receptive to this socio-cultural and linguistic phenomenon due to the ethnic makeup of their classrooms. En esta investigaci車n se busc車 indagar si la ubicaci車n geogr芍fica de los maestros de primaria influ赤a en su percepci車n acerca de la alternancia de c車digos de los estudiantes de un distrito escolar del sur de Texas. La pregunta central fue:  Existe alguna diferencia entre la opini車n de los maestros de escuela primaria del sur y aquellos maestros del norte, quienes son principalmente hispanos, en cuanto al uso de la alternancia de c車digos de sus alumnos? En caso afirmativo,  por qu谷? Se us車 un instrumento de 20 reactivos. La poblaci車n estudiada fueron 279 maestros de 7 escuelas primarias del norte y 7 del sur de la misma regi車n. Se us車 un m谷todo de estad赤stica descriptiva para analizar los datos. Los resultados muestran que los maestros del sur tienen m芍s prejuicios acerca de la alternancia de c車digos que los del norte. Estos 迆ltimos se caracterizan por ser m芍s receptivos a este fen車meno sociocultural y ling邦赤stico debido a la conformaci車n de sus aulas de clase.
%K alternancia de c車digos
%K cambio ling邦赤stico
%K mantenimiento de la lengua
%K mezcla de c車digos
%K programas de transici車n
%K Code-mixing
%K code switching
%K language maintenance
%K language shift
%K transitional programs
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