STUDENTS’ CODE-SWITCHING IN EFL CLASSROOM

Abstract

This study deals with students’ code-swithing in EFL classroom. The research method was the qualitative research method and the aims at collaborating the students’ code-swithing types The data were taken from 35 sheets from randomly students’ writing. The result shown that from 64 code-switching instances, 28 ones (51.57%) belong to the tag-switching which far the most frequent form. Inter-sentential switching make up the next more frequent form (43.75%). and intra-sentential switching is ranked the third. The reasons were the students used CS ‘to quote someone’ and ‘to emphasis meaning’. The students emphasize the meaning of their ideas by put the Indonesian sentence in brackets as the reason the reader will more understood the meaning of sentence.