CODE MIXING IN THE CLASSROOM INTERACTION OF SMKN 7 MEDAN

Authors

  • Muhammad Azmi
  • Sumarsih

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24114/gj.v13i4.65494

Abstract

The objective of this study is to find out the type of code-mixing used by the

teacher and students and the factors causing the teacher and students mix the

language in classroom interaction. Code-mixing is a bilingualism phenomenon

which has become very popular in society. It is used to prevent misunderstanding

such the teacher and students in classroom interaction. This study was conducted

by using descriptive qualitative design. The subjects of this study were the teacher

and students from tenth grade of hotel accommodation in SMKN 7 Medan. The

data were collected by recording the teacher and students’ utterances in classroom

interaction, the interview result of teacher and questionnaire of students. From the

research, it was found the type of code-mixing used by the teacher and students

were word insertion, phrase insertion, and clause insertion. All of data belongs to

outer code-mixing and the factors causing teacher did the code-mixing were

speaker partner, bilingual or multilingual, and absence of vocabulary. And for the

students, according to the percentages of their questionnaire result the data shows

that out of 24 students 45,8% of them chose speaker partner as their reason did the

code mixing, 8,3% chose bilingual or multilingual, and 45,9% chose absence of

vocabulary.

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Published

2024-10-20

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Vol. 13 No. 4 (2024): Journal of Applied Linguistics

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