Code Switching and Code Mixing in English Language Studies’ Speech Community: A Sociolinguistics Approach

Chrisda N Wattimury,Ni Nyoman Wartinah

doi:10.33019/berumpun.v1i1.7

Abstract

Enormously complex and not well understood are some state of affairs for a bilingual to âchangeâ theuse of language from one to another when having conversation with other bilinguals in dailyconversation. This linguistics behavior of changing the language, or widely known as âlanguageswitchingâ and âlanguage mixingâ, leads the researchers to find out the trigger behind this phenomenon.After done a research on Malaysian pre-school students, Karen Kow (2003) proposed some reasons ofdoing code switching and code mixing namely lack of one word in either language, to avoidmisunderstanding, to make a point, etc. However, students of graduated students of English LanguageStudies of Sanata Dharma University can be categorized as bilingual or multilingual since they employtwo even many languages in the daily conversation in their speech community. Therefore, by taking 12students of A class as the subject of the research through random sampling method, the discussion ofthis research will focus on investigating the reasons of both code switching and code mixing.

Highlights

IntroductionMany scholars have reflected on the important of language in teaching and learning process, where English becomes a formal language in classroom context
Language is an integral part of life and an integral part of the social system
Both methods focus on finding reasons of doing code switching and code mixing in classroom interaction, and after the data was gathered, to make it easy, the researchers organize and divide the data into several categories in table form analyze them

Summary

Introduction

Many scholars have reflected on the important of language in teaching and learning process, where English becomes a formal language in classroom context. Language is being used by human to communicate with other to convey meaning. Meaning can be both written and spoken. According to Holmes (2011), people will not be able to get involve with their surrounding without language. People usually speak differently in different social contexts in which concerns the identification of language social function and the ways it is used to convey social meaning. The important thing to be remembered is that before having interaction with other, people have to consider the language choice in certain speech community

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