THE STUDY
Context of the Study
This research was conducted at English Department of Satya Wacana Christian
University. To obtain the data for the study, five students who passed Speaking 4 class were
taken as participants. They were chosen because theywere supposed to have better vocabulary
and they had different ways to express ideas than the students who did not take speaking 4 class.
Participants
Five students who passed speaking 4 class were selected as participants of this study. The
selection of the participants were based on some criteria such as having passed speaking 4 class
and they speak Indonesian and English.
Data Collection Instrument
The instrument of this study was questions for semi-structured interview. Patton (1990)
stated that semi-structured interview is similar to structured interview but allows for greater
flexibility. The flexibility includes changing the order of the questions to provide opportunity for
follow up questions. The study used semi-structured interview as data collection technique
because it provided richer data than structured interview.
Data Collection Procedure
The first step in the data collection was designing the interview questions. The interview
UKSW, free open topic such as participant’s daily life or intereset, student’s job after graduation,
and their suggestion for UKSW. The next step was piloting the questions. The purposeof piloting
was to ensure that the questions wereappropriate and could elicit data for the study. In the
piloting process, one participant was interviewed. The interview was recorded using a
smartphone. After the interview was completed, the result was transcribed to see whether the
questions wereappropriate and useful for the study or not.
The result of the piloting contained appropriate responses toward the questions such as;
reason to apply in English Department, SIASAT in UKSW, free open topic such as participant’s
daily life or intereset, student’s job after graduation, and the last one was their suggestion for
UKSW.
The real interview was conducted after piloting the questions. It took about 5 minutes for
each participant to answer all questions. The interview was conducted in Bahasa Indonesia. The
purpose of using Bahasa Indonesia was to make sure that all the participants understood the
questions and to encourage code switching to happen. The result of the interview was transcribed
using a clean transcription technique. The focus was on the content of the interview.
Data Analysis
The next part was analyzing the data. The first step was identifying the data collected.
All cases of code switching that happened during interview was identified. The second step was
reread all the interview transcription to make sure that all the code switching cases were
identified. The next step was classifying the data according to the types of code switching. The
the interview script, the writer used the letter A to refer to the writer and the letter B to refer to
the participant.
This research investigated code switching among English Department students who were
already passed speaking 4 class.After the data needed was collected, the data was analyzed using
descriptive method to answer two research questions of this study. The first one was what the
reason the participants code switched. The second one was what the types of code switching used
by the participants.
The findings were organized by answering two questions above in two different sections.
The first step to answer the research questions waslistening to the interview script and
transcribed all the conversation. The second step was underlining the words or sentences which
the participants code switch. The last step was to determine the reasons the participants code
