ABSTRACT
The language-teaching profession, the profession that institutionalizes language teaching and learning, can be said to have had its beginning twenty-five centuries ago. The term most frequently used to describe the use of two languages in the language teaching classroom by both teachers and students in the literature on the use of a non-target language in instruction is codeswitching. Ideologies of language can best be thought of as unexamined ideas and beliefs that shape people’s thinking about language itself and about those who use language. Rumsey defines ideologies as “shared bodies of commonsense notions about the nature of language in the world.” The field that studies the learning/acquisition of additional languages is the field of second language acquisition. The end-state of the acquisition process was seen as the acquisition of the linguistic characteristics of the educated native speaker of the additional language. This native speaker, moreover, was constructed as a monolingual.
