AN EFL TEACHER’S CODE SWITCHING AND CODE MIXING IN BILINGUAL CLASS AT ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMA NEGERI CMBBS PANDEGLANG, BANTEN

Abstract

This study aims to investigate an EFL teacher’s reasons to do code switching and code mixing, and effect of an EFL teacher’s code switching and code mixing toward the students’ competency accomplishment in their English class. This study belongs to descriptive qualitative design.The data was obtained through classroom observations, teacher’s interview, student’s questionnaire, and students’ interview in bilingual classrooms at eleventh grade of SMA Negeri CMBBS, Pandeglang, Banten. Then, those data were analyzed through some stages, namely transcribing the recorded data, classifying the data, reducing the data, giving code for each datum, analyzing the data and interpreting them to answer the research problems.There are two major findings found from this study. First, there are six reasons from an EFL teacher done code switching and code mixing including teaching strategy methodology, specifying addressees based on students’ characteristics, telling a joke, showing feeling, showing solidarity, and emphasizing on some points. Further, there are positive and negative effects of an EFL teacher’s code switching and code mixing toward the students’ competency accomplishment.