Abstract
This study is aimed at describing the levels of code switching on EFL students’ daily conversation. The topic is chosen due to the facts that code switching phenomenon are commonly found in daily speech of Indonesian community such as in teenager talks, television serial dialogues and mass media. Therefore, qualitative data were collected by using diary notes and semi structure interview techniques. As the results, there were 15 examples of the code switching collected from the students’ daily conversations, and there were 4 reasons why the students tend to switch codes. In conclusion, by using the general linguistics form, the students produced three levels of linguistics structure in code switching namely word level, phrase level and sentence (clause) level. Keyword: Code Switching, Language Production and EFL Students
Highlights
1.1 Background of the StudyNowadays, bilingual or multilingual cannot be avoided in daily language especially in youth daily language
Bilingual or multilingual cannot be avoided in daily language especially in youth daily language
Heredia and Brown said that people who know more than one language naturally produce code switching
Summary
Bilingual or multilingual cannot be avoided in daily language especially in youth daily language. Code switching (CS) has become an interesting phenomenon to be studied in the study of second language learning because it is one of the major aspects of bilingual developmental process. Code switching can occur because of two reasons: first, the speaker’s deficiency in the target language. It is because of some multiple communicative purposes (Gysels cited in Duran, 1994). Code switching is seen as having certain function in the communication done by bilinguals or multilingual. Heredia and Brown (http://www.tamiu.edu) said that people who know more than one language naturally produce code switching
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