For example, an older Chinese person in Singapore may use Hokkien (a
Southern Chinese dialect) at home, Singapore English at work, and Bazaar
Malay to Indian or Malay stallholders at the market.
The code a person selects may often depend on the ethnic background, sex,
age, and level of education of the speaker and of the person with whom
he/she is speaking.
see also code switching, digloss, domain^1code switchingn
a change by a speaker (or writer) from one language or language variety to
another one. Code switching can take place in a conversation when one
speaker uses one language and the other speaker answers in a different
language. A person may start speaking one language and then change to
another one in the middle of their speech, or sometimes even in the middle
of a sentence. For example, from the speech of a German immigrant in
Australia:
Das handelt von einem secondhand dealer and his son.
“That is about a.. .”
Code switching can be a sign of cultural solidarity or distance or serve as an
act of identity.
see also code selection
codingn
a research technique in which data that have been collected are turned into
classes or categories (i.e. codes) for the purpose of counting or tabulation.
For example in conducting a needs analysis, students’ responses to
questions on a questionnaire may be classified into different classes or
codes, or when coding classroom data into such categories as initiation,
response or evaluation.
see also IRE
coefficient alphan
another term for Cronbach’s alpha
coefficient of correlationn
see correlation coefficient
coefficient of determinationn
also r^2
a measure of the amount of variability shared or predicted by two variables^2.
It is equal to the square of r (r=coefficient of correlation). For example,
a correlation coefficient of +.70 indicates that 49% of the variability is
coefficient of determination