Daftar Isi:
  • Code Switching often occurs on the bilingual and multilingual environment. Indonesia, people often use more than one language to communicate. Code switching itself is not only found in verbal communication but also can found in social media. One of the popular media is Facebook. The purpose of this study are: 1) to find out the types of code switching, and 2) to know the reasons of code switching used by English Department Students in 10th semester at University of Muhammadiyah Malang. This study used descriptive Qualitative research design. Besides, the subjects of this study were ten students of English Department in 10th Semester at University of Muhammadiyah Malang. Meanwhile, the researcher used observation, document analysis, and unstructured online interview as the instrument to collect the data. The result of this study: 1) There are two types of code switching used by the students, those are: Five statuses belong to Metaphorical code switching, and five statuses belong to Situational code switching, in addition, 2) There are There are three reasons of using code switching found in this study, they are: to amplify and emphasize a point, habitual expressions, and to attract attention.