LECTURERS’ CODE SWITCHING IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CLASSES

This study was aimed at finding out lecturers’ code switching in English Department classes. The objectives of this study were to find out the types of code switching used by the lecturers and the reasons on why the lecturers did code switching in the classroom. This research applied qualitative research design. The instruments used were observation sheet and interview sheet. The observation was administered to get the types of code switching done by the lecturers and interview was conducted to get the lecturers’ reasons on why they did code switching in the classroom. The data were the lecturers’ utterance related to code switching when they taught in the classroom and the sources were four English lecturers who taught in English Department of State University of Medan. The techniques of data analysis was Interactive Model proposed by Miles and Huberman (2014). Based on the analysis, it was found that 1) there were four types of code switching used by the lecturers namely morphological code switching, emblematic code switching, intra-sentential code switching, and inter-sentential code switching, 2) the lecturers’ reasons on doing the code switching were due to the curriculum access such as by explaining meaning of words, explaining difficult concepts, explaining grammatical, checking for comprehension, introducing unfamiliar material, triggering to be accustomed to, talking about trending topic, ethnical approach, and varying the instructional term. Code switching for classroom management was also done by organizing classroom tasks, maintaining classroom discipline, and drawing students’ attention. Besides, there were positive and negative effects of code switching related to interpersonal function. Positive effect was done through building and strengthening interpersonal relationship between teachers and students, reducing students’ anxiety in learning English, teasing the students, and relieving from anger. While negative effect was done through showing lecturers’ anger, impatience, annoyance, and threatening the students.