Code Switching in Teaching Narrative for Junior High School

Abstrak

Most of people, especially in bilingualism even multilingualism context, speak using several varieties of language. It also happens in SMP Negeri 3 Busungbiu, a Junior High School in Bali. This research uses descriptive qualitative and descriptive quantitative.The researcher documented the students’ and teacher discussion in narrative text in English learning process for 9th graders of SMP 3 Busungbiu. The second way of collecting data was doing interview to find out the reason why students and teacher used code mixing in discussing narrative text. The data that then analyzed thorough: 1) data collection, 2) data classification, 3) data description, and 4) conclusion drawing. The result showed intrasentential code switching was the most dominant. There was totally 22 intra-sentential code switching. Teacher did more inter sentential and intra-sentential code switching than the students. Based on the students’ transcript during the research and the interview, intra sentential-switching is the most common code switching phenomena during the teaching of narrative. The least common code switching phenomena is tag switching. Both teacher and the students have their own reason of using code switching.