Alfaro, Ph.D., is associate vice president of international affairs and professor of multilingual and global education at San Diego State University. She lives in Escondido. The visceral and powerful ...

The definition of code-switching has not been static and has changed over time along with many other social constructs. In this article, I focus on cultural code-switching that involves the ...

What exactly is code-switching? Many of us may do it and not even realize it. Others may have never heard this term before, and some others may not acknowledge it as a real thing. Usually groups in ...

The definition of “code-switch” is to alternate between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation, but the subtext behind the words can mean so much more. Especially to people of ...

"Every single one of us has our own understanding about code-switching. In my world, it's the code-switching of my gender, of how I express myself with my ethnicity. And sometimes, you know, sometimes ...

Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre for rolling out) The ongoing scrutiny of Vice President Kamala Harris has reignited discussions around her ...