Attitudes of Educated Yoruba Bilinguals to Codeswitching

Abstract

This paper investigates the attitudes of some university and
tertiary institution students to codeswitching. Respondents were
drawn from four tertiary institutions located in the Southwestern
part of Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was administered to
the informants whose ages ranged between sixteen and fifty-five
years. The social variables tested included qualifications/programmes
and schools. The study revealed that the overall attitude of Nigerian students to codeswitching is largely positive. It also
showed, among other things, that students on degree programmes
are more positively inclined to use codeswitching than those on
other programmes.

i>Key words: Codeswitching, attitudes, multilingual setting, bilinguals
and Nigerian languages