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Citation: Malik, Muhammad. (2014). Code switching as an effective technique of teaching English at the intermediate level in Pakistan, jprss, 1(1): 56-69.

“Code-switching is an up-shot of bilingualism. It shows mixture of two languages in interaction”.

The main purpose of this study is to know the usefulness of code-switching while teaching low proficiency language students at the intermediate level. According To Asmah Hj Omar (1992) advantageous of bilingualism is it effectively functions in case of students who are weak in the English conversation classroom.

In this study the researcher stated the types of code-switching, those are :

•  Conversational code-switching

This code-switching happens while the conversation between the bilingual or multilingual.

•  Situational and Metaphorical code-switching

This code-switching depends on changes from one external situation to the other.

•  Intersential Code-switching

In this code switching, the speaker switches over a clause, a phrase or lexical level.

The instrument of this study is questionnaire and based on the data analysis shows that most of the students are confident to use code-switching while in the teaching and learning activity.