THE COMMUNICATIVE PURPOSE OF CODE SWITCHING USED
BY ENGLISH TEACHERS
’
COMMUNICATION IN THE
CLASSROOM
Aji Utomo
Abstract
This study is conducted on the writer’s interest toward communicative purpose of code switching in classroom used by teachers in teaching and learning process which use English as a target language being learnt. In this study, teachers use Indonesian as the first language and English as the target language alternately to help students in understanding teachers’ utterances. The purpose of this study is to find the communicative purpose of code switching used by English Teachers’ classroom communication in SMP Negeri 1 Banyubiru. To come to the desired result, the writer observed three English teachers in SMP Negeri 1 Banyubiru to get the code switching dialogue or utterances transcription used by English teacher in classroom communication. Based on Gumperz (1982) theory that a speaker plays upon the connotation of the
“we-code” to create a conversational effect, the writer analyzed the teachers’ utterances using theories in literature review on communicative purpose. The result shows that teachers code switched to justify/clarify the students’ understanding, to check for students’ understanding, for Efficiency in explaining the materials, no equivalent words, affective function, for managing class, and for communicating meaning.
