English-Indonesia code switching in WhatsApp group chatting of English Education Department Students at IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Hasibuan, Anisa Dayanti (2021) English-Indonesia code switching in WhatsApp group chatting of English Education Department Students at IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The seventh semester students of English Education Department often switch from one language to other language while face to face or through Whatsapp group chatting because they lack of vocabulary. Code switching helps them to keep doing communication. This fact showed that how important code switching takes role in communication events. The use of code switching is also due to their ability to use more than one language, while another use code switching to make sure their explanation more clear and easier to comprehend and will not make misunderstanding. The purposes of this research are to find out the types of code switching in Whatsapp group chatting used by the students of English Education Department in the State institute for Islamic Studies Padangsidimpuan and to investigate what type of code switching is dominantly use by students in WhatsApp group chatting of English Education Department in State Institute for Islamic Studies Padangsidimpuan. This research is a qualitative approach. Moreover, it is a document study. The instrument was screen shoot of chats with three indicators. They are: tag switching, inter- sentential switching, and intra- sentential switching. To collect the data, researcher took the screen shoot of chats. The researcher analyzed the data by using four steps of analyzing qualitative data, they are reading, classifying, describing and interpreting. The result of the research are there were three types of code switching used by the seventh semester students of English Education Department in WhatsApp group chatting. They are tag switching, inter- sentential switching, and intra- sentential switching. Furthermore, there are 25 codes switching which are uttered by the students; they are 9 (25,7%) tag switching, 18(51,4%) inter sentential switching, and 10 (28,5%) intra- sentential switching. So, the dominant code switching used by the seventh semester students of English Education Department at IAIN Padangsidimpuan in WhatsApp group chatting was inter sentential switching.

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