-Code switching in ChE (Chicano English)-

Many people can consider Chicano English as an American language variety spoken by Mexicans-Americans. It is not common the mixing of English and Spanish sentences, but society is often associating the Spanglish as the official dialect of a Chicano speaker.

“Chicano English does not necessary imply a situation of bilingualism” (Putrino, 2010).

Paraphrasing to Rosalba Putrino, she says, that code switching allows to the speaker to communicate using codes from their native language in another one. This is a typical action of bilinguals that happens when a word in a language cannot be found or when someone mixes their first language with the second language.

Basically, Code switching can be defined as an accident that occurs when a person mixes two or more languages. Usually, this affects the languages used previously, because then people will adopt that word or phrase as a habit and others not are going to understand them.