CONCLUSION
The purpose of this study was to find and analyze the reasons for student’s code
switching. The findings of the study were organized to answer the two main research questions, why English department students of Satya Wacana Christian Unversity code switched in certain situation and the types of code switching used.
The findings of the study was based on two research questions mentioned previously. The first part discussed the reasons for the participants to code switch. There were five reasons used by the participants; expressing group identity, clarifying the speech for interlocutor, repeating meaning used for clarification, using interjection or sentence filler, and talking about a particular topic. The main and common reason among the participant to code switch was to show which group they belong to. The participants thought that it is common for English department students
to use English in daily conversation in the campus area. In contrast, the participants rarely used
English outside campus area except when they talked with fellow English department student or
staff and other English native language speaker. The participant used other reasons to code
switch in certain situation based on ten reasons stated by Hoffman, but they mainly used code
switching to show group identity which is English department student.
The next finding discussed about the types of code switching used by the participants.
used it correctly because they had a lot of vocabulary both in English and Indonesian. The other two types were also used.
There were several problems the writer found when the writer conducted the study. The writer only interviewed five participants because the time limit. The limitation of the new source of code switching also made the writer struggled to read a lot of refferences. The last problem was because the writer used electronic device to collect and store the data, there were a time when the data was corrupt due to electronic device malfunction, but the writer can overcome all those problems.
This study may provide some knowledge about the student’s code switching. However, due to the small size ofthe sample, the finding may not be valid. Therefore, I hope that some other researchers will analyze code switching with a larger sample size from different student groups.
