Code-mixing on Facebook Postings by EFL Students: a Small Scale Study at an SMP in Tangerang

This study aims to analyze the use of English, in terms of code mixing forms, and its motivations by EFL teenager learners. The participants of this study are three students in the age range of 12-14 year's old (grade 8th and 9th) in a junior high school in Tangerang, Indonesia. The data was a one week Facebook postings from the students Facebook page. Content analysis was used as a method for data analysis. In addition, interview was also conducted to find out the participants' motivation in using English on their Facebook posts. The research findings showed that English is frequently used by students in social media to perform code-mixing which are present in caption, status, hashtag, and comments. Using Hoffman's categorization (1991), reasons for code-mixing are identified as follows: 1) talking about a particular topic, 2) quoting somebody else's statements, 3) being emphatic about something, 4) interjection (inserting sentence fillers or sentence connectors), 5) indicating pride and 6) limited words

code-mixing on Facebook postings by EFL students: A small scale study at an SMP in Tangerang

This study aims to analyze the use of English, in terms of code mixing forms, and its motivations by EFL teenager learners. The participants of this study are three students in the age range of 12-14 year’s old (grade 8th and 9th) in a junior high school in Tangerang, Indonesia. The data was a one week Facebook postings from the students Facebook page. Content analysis was used as a method for data analysis. In addition, interview was also conducted to find out the participants’ motivation in using English on their Facebook posts. The research findings showed that English is frequently used by students in social media to perform code-mixing which are present in caption, status, hashtag, and comments. Using Hoffman’s categorization (1991), reasons for code-mixing are identified as follows: 1) talking about a particular topic, 2) quoting somebody else’s statements, 3) being emphatic about something, 4) interjection (inserting sentence fillers or sentence connectors), 5) indicating pride and 6) limited words

Sasak-Taliwang Code Mixing Used Among Inhabitants of Jantuk Village Mantang in Central Lombok

People may speak bilingually because they acquire two languages during childhood or learn second language after acquiring their first language. In Jantuk community, people there speak two languages which the combination of both is not common. The two languages are Taliwang and Sasak languages. Due to this code mixing phenomenon, it is important to carry out a research in this topic. This research aimed to find out the types and reasons of code mixing appearing in daily conversation of Jantuk community located in Mantang. This research used descriptive qualitative method to find out, analyze, and classify code mixing. As this phenomenon only happened in Jantuk village, this research was conducted in Jantuk, Central Lombok. The data were analyzed based on the theory of Suwito and Hoffman. The finding of this study showed that there were four types of code mixing used by Jantuk people. They were word insertion, phrase insertion, clause insertion and repetition insertion. The reasons were talking about particular topic, expressing group identity and interjection. Even though Jantuk community mixed two contrast languages, they did not change any meaning, topic, situation, and setting of place of the sentence.AbstractPeople may speak bilingually because they acquire two languages during childhood or learn second language after acquiring their first language. In Jantuk community, people there speak two languages which the combination of both is not common. The two languages are Taliwang and Sasak languages. Due to this code mixing phenomenon, it is important to carry out a research in this topic. This research aimed to find out the types and reasons of code mixing appearing in daily conversation of Jantuk community located in Mantang. This research used descriptive qualitative method to find out, analyze, and classify code mixing. As this phenomenon only happened in Jantuk village, this research was conducted in Jantuk, Central Lombok. The data were analyzed based on the theory of Suwito and Hoffman. The finding of this study showed that there were four types of code mixing used by Jantuk people. They were word insertion, phrase insertion, clause insertion and repetition insertion. The reasons were talking about particular topic, expressing group identity and interjection. Even though Jantuk community mixed two contrast languages, they did not change any meaning, topic, situation, and setting of place of the sentence