TYPES, FUNCTIONS AND REASONS FOR CODE SWITCHING BY LECTURERS AND STUDENTS IN EFL CLASSROOM: A CASE STUDY AT IPDN NTB CAMPUS IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This research aims to analyze types, functions and reasons for code switching used by the lecturers and the students. The lecturers here are the English lecturers of IPDN NTB Campus  and the students here are the students of IPDN NTB Campus in academic year 2014/2015.  This study identified and described the types of code switching based on Poplack (1980), the functions of code switching was seen by using Canagarajah (1995), and reasons by Hoffman (1991). This  Thesis  is  descriptive  qualitative  research.  The data  are  words, phrases, and clauses of code switching used by Lecturers and students in EFL classroom of IPDN NTB Campus. It’s in the form of transcript from recording the conversation. The data source of this research is the conversation in class Madya Praja of IPDN NTB  Campus in academic year 2014/2015. The result showed that the types for code switching used by the lecturers and students are relatively the same.  They are: (1). inter-sentential codeswitching, (2). tag switching,  and (3). intra-sentential codeswitching. The functions of codeswitching found in this study, are: (1). Explanation, (2). Clarification for misunderstanding, (3). Unofficial Instructions, (4). Moving from one activity to another, (5). Students’ comments, (6). Lecturers’ admonitions, (7). Student helping each other, (8). Students’ initiation, (9). Requesting for help, (10). Grammar explanation, and (11). Self-corrections. While the reasons for codeswitching by lecturers and students found in this study are: (1) Talk about a particular topic, (2). Repetition used for clarification, (3). Intention of clarify the speech content for the students, and (4). Interjections.  The findings also showed the different types, functions and reasons code switching in their performances. The most dominant code used by lecturers for different functions, i.e. for repetition and clarification. The lecturers often repeated in order to clarify their speech or the students’ speech so that it would be understood more clearly by the students. While, the reasons for lecturers and students to code switch are, i.e. interjection, to avoid the vacuum of tempo in their communication. This study suggests that the students are able to develop their communication using correct English without any switching to both Indonesian and the mother tongue. Because they have to exposures their English during the classroom interaction.

Keywords: Codeswitching, types, functions and reason of codeswitching, EFL classroom, IPDN NTB Campus.