Consider amy tan's essay "mother tongue" as well as the video you watched about code-switching. identify and evaluate two examples of code-switching in tan's essay. how does this code-switching reflect tan's complex upbringing, cultural background, and life in american society?

Code-switching is changing the way you communicate depending on whom you are talking to. For example, you would talk with your teacher differently than you would with your friends. In Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue,” the reader is presented with two different types of English language—Amy Tan’s perfect American English and her mother’s limited and sometimes incoherent English.Although Amy Tan, who was educated in the United States, speaks Standard English, she sometimes code switches to a different kind of English—a language of intimacy, as she calls it—that she uses only while speaking to her mother or husband