CODE SWITCHING BY STUDENTS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HKBP NOMMENSEN PEMATANGSIANTAR

Abstrak

This research is investigating Code Switching used by the students in public speaking class at the first year students of English department FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar. In this research, the problem of the study is conducted as in three problems they as, “What types of code switching is used by the students, how is the code switching used by the students in the class, and what are the reasons of code switching that used by the students in public speaking class at the first year students of English department FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar.

To answer the problem, the researchers take some theories as: Hornby (2000) analysis, Saville (2012) bilingualism and multilingualism, Wardhaugh (1989) sociolinguistic, Wardaugh (2006) code switching. This research is a qualitative descriptive study design. From the data transcription, the researchers find out that 73 utterances were uttered by the students during the class.

The objective of this study is to find out what types of code switching are used by the students, how is the code switching used by the students in the class, and what are the reasons of code switching that used by the students in public speaking class at the first year students of English department FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar. In analyzing the data, the researchers find that three types of the code switching that occurs. It can be classified into 6 utterances of tag code switching with the percentage is 18% or 16 utterances of inter-sentential code switching with the percentage is 48% and 11 intra-sentential code switching with the percentage is 33%. For the second problem the researchers find out code switching happens naturally and spontaneously.