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Abstract
The study at hand is concerned with studying code-switching among the Arab students at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in Alexandria in which code-switching occurs at the language and dialect levels. Accordingly, it attempts to answer the following questions: (1) What are the sociolinguistic factors behind code-switching among Egyptian and other Arab students? (2) To what extent does code-switching take place among the Egyptians and other Arabs? (3) How is code-switching a tool of style shift among the Arab students in particular? For this purpose, recordings and questionnaires were used. Qualitatively, Hoffman’s (1991) reasons of code-switching, Bell’s Audience Design Theory (2010), and Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame Model (1993b) were used to analyze the recordings. Quantitatively, the questionnaires were used to back up the analysis of the recordings using SPSS. The results of the study have shown that code-switching among all the speakers is, first, to talk about a particular topic, and then to express group identity. Moreover, when code-switching occurs among the Egyptian and other Arab students, it is mainly at the language level; in addition, it takes place at the dialect level among the Arab students among themselves as a kind of style shift.