| Abstract | Even with the belief 'Teaching English through English' in mind, teachers in Hong Kong still find it necessary to use their mother tongue to assist in the teaching of English language (L2) because, as they claim, standard of students is low and class discipline is poor. In this paper, studies of four pre-service English teacher-trainees were carried out during their 2-month teaching practice period to find out the situations which rendered the use of the Cantonese (L1) necessary for the student-teachers, how the student-teachers used Cantonese in the English language classrooms and the student-teachers' decision-making process regarding the alernation of language codes in the English language classrooms. |
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