MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS CODE MIXING IN MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT OF AR RAUDLATUL HASANAH ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL

This research was aimed at comparing the use of code mixing in relation to the kinds of insertion and the pattern of code mixing used by male and female students of Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah Islamic Boarding School Medan. It is also intended to find out the different way in code mixing between male and female students related to linguistic aspects including the use of intensifier, tag question, hedge, and expletive. The data of the study were 63 male and female students utterances which contain Indonesian-English code mixing. The design of study was descriptive qualitative. The research findings showed that male and female students dominantly used the same kind of insertion in code mixing that is insertion of word, but male students tend to use noun or verb, while female students tend to use the word lah, kan and ya. Kinds of insertion used by male students are also more various than female students, in which male students used six kinds of insertion; insertion of word, phrase, insertion of word and phrase, clause, hybrid and reduplication, while female students only insertion of word and insertion of phrase. Male students code mixing was dominated by insertion pattern (56.66%) and alternation pattern (26.66%), while female students dominantly used insertion pattern (63.63%), alternation and congruent lexicalization pattern have the same frequency in use (18.18%). It was also found that female students used intensifier six times more often than male students, in which the frequency of female students is 60.6% while male students only 10 % and in the use of tag question female students is three times (18.18%) more often compared to male students (6.66%).