Research in English and Education Journal
Vol 5, No 1 (2020): February 2020

An Analysis of Code Switching Used by an English Teacher in Teaching Process

Nur Afifah (Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh)
Syamsul Bahri Ys (Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh)
Diana Fauzia Sari (Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Mar 2020

Abstract

This research is aimed to know the types and functions of code-switching that used by an English teacher at MAN 1 Pidie. The approach of this research was qualitative method. The data were gathered from direct and indirect observation of the English teaching process in the classroom. The writer used Jendra’s (2013) theory to analyze the types of code switching and Mattson and Burenhult’s (1999) theory to analyze the functions of code switching of the selected data. The findings of this research showed that the teacher used all three types of code switching in teaching English process which includes tag code-switching, inter-sentential code-switching and intra-sentential code-switching. Based on occurrence frequency tag code-switching was the most-used type, while inter-sentential code-switching was the least. The writer also found all three functions of code-switching those are topic switch function, affective function and repetitive function. In this research, topic switch function tend to be used more frequently among others function which makes it the highest percentage. 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

READ

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

READ (Research in English and Education) Journal (e-ISSN 2528-746X) is a peer-reviewed and open access academic journal published by the Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It highlights and publishes works in ...