Code Switching And Code Mixing

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Code Mixing and Code Switching in Bilingual Educational Program of English Department Student of UNJ Most of students who are used to speak English and Indonesian in speaking class are open and familiar with bilingualism. The students always use their national language to communicate but it is not impossible for them to use English outside the speaking class in order the communication between them. However, it is not always happen when bilingualism is used in certain speech community like speaking class community. That is the reason that influences the students use code switching and code mixing. Khmert, Yim, Nett, Kan & Duran (2005) stated that code switching is an effective communication mode available to proficient bilingual speaker for interaction between other individual who share both language. Meanwhile, code mixing refers to the mixing of two or more languages or even speech. In other words, students frequently use both codes in communicating with others. These are different factors that make students choose to have code switch or the code mixing code because these codes bring a different meaning to it. The appropriate use of both codes in speaking students’ community brings different interpretation for the participant of the speech. Based on this situation, the writer would like to know how the students place code switching and code mixing appropriately in certain communication so the information needed is delivered and received without any misunderstanding. Besides, the object this research is to analyze what code that will be useful in communication among the students to avoid false interpretation between the

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