A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS CODE SWITCHING IN ENGLISHARABIC
DAILY CONVERSATION OF STUDENTS ISLAMIC BOARDING
SCHOOL
(Case Study at Pesantren Miftahul ‘Ulum Indramayu)
AHMAD FAJAR SIDIK : “A Descriptive Code Switching In English-Arabic
Daily Conversation Of Students Islamic Boarding
School (Case Study at Peantren Miftahul ‘Ulum
Indramayu)””
The goals of this research are: (1) to know the code switching occurred at
the students of Miftahul ‘Ulum Islamic Boarding School, (2) to know the types of
code switching in English daily conversation at the students of IAIN Syekh
Nurjati Cirebon, (3) to know the students’ reason in using code switching at
Miftahul ‘Ulum Islamic Boarding School.
The method of this research uses qualitative research, using descriptive
qualitative research. The focus of data in this research is towards the daily
conversation of the students at eleventh grade. The data is acquired from
observation, interviewing and documentation. The technique of collecting data is
observation the activities and recording the conversation in their activities.
Besides observation, other technique is through interview. The data from
interview is acquired from some students at eleventh grade. And the data from
documentation is taken from institution documents like profile of institution, rules
of students, etc. The data is analyzed with four steps; collecting, reducing,
presenting and concluding.
The result shows that the code switching occurred more at bathroom with
27%. And the time the students always use code-switching is when they are
bathing with 27%. In situation, the students always use code switching more in
small talk with 64%. In topic, the students always use code switching when
talking about common things with 52%.
The types of code switching occurred are divided three types; inter
sentential code switching, intra sentential code switching and tag switching. The
most type occurred at the students is inter sentential code switching with 66%;
followed by intra-sentential code switching with 25% and tag switching with 9%.
The most happened reason they always use code switching is because of
lacking of vocabulary. Meanwhile the effort for them to solve the problem is by
enriching more English vocabulary.
Key words: code-switching and daily conversatio