Students’ Reaction On The Use Of Teacher’s Code Switching And Its Influence On Language Learning: A Case Study Of Madrasah Aliyah Muhammadiyah 1 Jember Academic Year 2018/2019

Abstract

The era of globalization and technology advancement requires society to know more than one language; first is a mother tongue and the second is another language spoken as the second language. In addition, there is a phenomenon called code switching used as an alternative way between two languages during speaker’s speech with another bilingual. Meanwhile, there have been contrasting views on how bilingual students react to teacher’s code switching. The purpose of this study was to find out how the students react to the teacher’s code switching and how it influences them when learning English. The data were collected from 60 students in MA. Muhammadiyah 1 Jember, the academic year 2018/2019. It used the question list of questionnaires which are adapted from Lee (2010) and Gaudart (2002). It is then followed by semi-structured interview with 6 students whose questionnaire results showed positive attitude towards teacher's code switching and 6 other students showed the opposite. This study discovered that the students had the similar opinions with the teachers in most of question items. This consistency suggested that teachers and students had a similar positive attitude to teachers’ code-switching in ESL classroom.