THE ANALYSIS OF CODE MIXING IN STUDENTS' DAILY CONVERSATION AT

ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL

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Agus Salim 2 Niki Saputri

(Student of the Department of English Tadris, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training)

Syeikh Nurjati State Islamic Institute of Cirebon

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[email protected]

ABSTRACT :

Keyword :

PRELIMINARY

The study of language is sociolinguistics, and what influences sociolinguistics is social relations

and the factors that influence people (Genc, LG, & Meral, 2020) . Then language and society are two

parts that always share a symbiosis and between language and society of course always have a big impact

on each other. Changes in one or more of the languages spoken are the result of language contact. In

addition, what is very important in determining the level and nature of language change is the attitude of

the language user itself. Code mixing is always encountered in non-native English-speaking environments

because code mixing provides a natural communication mechanism where English is a truly international

language, but is a language that is not easily mastered by them (Al-Ahdal, 2020)

One of the consequences of bilingualism is code mixing. Hanafiah , Rantika & Yusuf (in

Wardhaugh, 1998) say code mixing is when speakers use both languages together as long as they change

from one language to another in one utterance (Hanafiah, R., Rantika, A., & Yusuf, 2018 ) . According to

Kim (in Bhatia and Ritchie, 2004) Explaining that the mixing of various types of language units is a

reference for code mixing (sentences, clauses, phrases, words, and also morphemes) , the most important
of which are the two language systems that participate in a sentence. In particular, code mixing is

intrasentential and then limited by grammatical principles (Kim, 2006) .

According to Hanafiah, Rantika & yusuf (in Siregar, 1996) there are two types of code mixing.

First, extra-sentential mixing. Code mixing occurs at sentence boundaries because it occurs between

sentences, that way when communicating code mixing between two languages, this process only occurs

between sentences and does not occur in less complex syntax, so this will be very much needed in code

mixing. Second, Intra-sentential mixing occurs in three posibble circumstances, namely at the word level,

single phrase level and also at the clause level in either one sentence or one utterance.

This study raises issues related to the use of code mixing in daily conversations at Islamic

boarding schools, where previously writing this research, the authors took and examined several journals

about code mixing in daily conversations. Among them is a research that has been conducted by

(Rinawati, 2020) , with the title: “A Code Mixing Analysis On EFL Students' Casual Conversations At

School”. In this research, researchers analyzed the types of code mixing students use to interact and the

reasons why students use code mixing. Then in data collection researcher used questionnaire to determine

student interactions with other people, find out whether students in this code mixing dominantly use

English or indeed students use code mixing between Indonesian-English or other languages. Then the

researchers conducted interviews to obtain data about the motivation of students in doing code mixing

both with male and female. The reseachers conducted this interview with sixs students, namely 3 boys

and 4 girls. Then result of this study indicate that code mixing is always use by students to interact with

their friends at school.

Then in a study conducted by (Davistasya, 2019) with the tittle: "Code-Mixing in Language

Style of South Jakarta Community Indonesia". In this research, researchers analyzed about code-mixing

that appears and is used in the South Jakarta community when these communities communicate with each

other through whatsapp and twitter media. This study took data from seven people, namely three men and

four women. In this study, the researcher used a descriptive-qualitative research method which then
involved the researcher into the social media community they used, conducted library research and also

the internet by selecting relevant sources. So, this research can be concluded that along with the use code-

mixing, it will indirectly increase their vocabulary. Then it has been proven that the use of code mixing

greatly affects the public in communicating.

Then (Novianda, 2017) conducted a study entitled: "Indonesian and English Code Mixing in

Daily Conversation by Male anf Female Students at Mahad Muhammad Saman Islamic Boarding

School". This study aims to compare the pattern of code mixing carried out by students and students in

islamic boarding school in communicating using code mixing. in collecting data, the researcher took data

from 20 students consisting of 10 male students and 10 female students who used the Indonesia-English

code mixing in their communication, then the researcher conclude that nouns or verbs tend to be used

frequently by boys students, while female students tend to often use the final additional word like lah.

From the three previous studies, it has been explained that code mixing is often used in daily

conversation, especially in this era of globalization, people are already familiar with using code mixing

with foreign languages including English. The difference between previous research and this research, as

explained above, previous research conducted research on code mixing in daily conversation in the school

environment, in the community environment and in the boarding school environment. Previous research

conducted at boarding schools examined the comparison of code mixing patterns used by male and

female students. This study examines what code mixing is used by students in carrying out their daily

conversations at boarding schools in Arabic-English. Looking for code mixing at the level of words,

phrases and clauses that are often used by students in communicating and also the purpose of using code

mixing students in daily conversations. Therefore, the writer thinks it is necessary to carry out this

research with the title: “THE ANALYSIS OF CODE MIXING IN STUDENTS' DAILY

CONVERSATION AT ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL”.

This study aims to find out what Arabic-English code mixing is at the level of words, phrases

and clauses used by students in daily conversations and also the purpose of using code mixing. The
benefit of this research is that students will increase their vocabulary in communicating both in Arabic

and in English.

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