How Does Language Status as Majority or Minority Influence Mandarin-English Bilingual Children's Code-Switching Pattern?

This article is a literature review that focuses on exploring how can the frequency, syntactic characteristics, and situational differences of code-switching be impacted by the language popularity of Mandarin-English bilingual children in different social environments, more specifically, in environments with varying levels of status in two languages. It is discovered after looking through enough literature that the language status of Mandarin or English impacts the code-switching pattern through sociolinguistic mechanisms on families and children. Children thus tend to code-switch more in the minor language context. Nevertheless, there are some special cases. The research gap regarding this topic is mainly on the impact of language status on syntactical characteristics of code-switching and whether one language as the community language, but not the national language can overwhelm the impact of national language on the code-switching pattern. Depending on some relevant literature, it is predicted that the impact of language status on syntactical characteristics does not exist and the latter gap may have the answer no.