Abstract
This study was aimed at discovering the levels of English-Arabic code-mixing in Islamic boarding school students’ daily conversation. This study departs from code-mixing theory in sociolinguistics. Qualitative approach was utilized as the research design. The data were in the form of word, phrase, and clause taken from utterances obtained by recording the conversations of students. From the data analysis taken from 20 situations, there were 98 utterances of code mixing, which were used by students in their conversation at Islamic boarding school covering intra- and extra-sentential code – mixing. The dominant occurrence is in word level totalling to 65 occurrences (66.4%), followed by clause level 13 occurrences (13.2%), phrase level 10 occurrences (10.2%), and sentence level 10 occurrences (10.2%). Therefore, the code – mixing did exist in students’ conversation. Even though the appearance of the code – mixing in students’ conversation was not really high but this needs to be re-examined the correct use of the code – mixing in orther to avoid the misunderstanding and miscommunication among the students and with teachers.
Highlights
Sociolinguistics is a socially relevant variety of linguistics, to investigate matters concern in studies of language in society (Wardhaugh, 2006)
From the data analysis taken from 20 situations, there were 98 utterances of code mixing, which were used by students in their conversation at Islamic boarding school covering intra- and extra-sentential code – mixing
The dominant occurrence is in word level totalling to 65 occurrences (66.4%), followed by clause level 13 occurrences (13.2%), phrase level 10 occurrences (10.2%), and sentence level 10 occurrences (10.2%)
Summary
Sociolinguistics is a socially relevant variety of linguistics, to investigate matters concern in studies of language in society (Wardhaugh, 2006). It is concerned with investigating the relationships between language and society with the goal of a better understanding of the structure of language and how language functions in communication (Trudgill, 1983). Code-mixing deals with the case that lexical items and grammatical features from two languages appear in one sentence (Muysken, 2000). Jendra (2010) asserts that the code-mixing concept is able to be utilized to identify almost any linguistic mixed forms as the result of language contact. Code-mixing is the phenomenon occurred due to contact among languages
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