THE EXPLORATION OF TYPES AND REASON OF CODE-SWITCHING APPLIED IN ENGLISH LEARNING PROCESS

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Code-switching is a linguistic feature which is used as a learning strategy in language learning process. Code-switching has been studied by some researchers in various topic. The types of code-switching used in language learning and the reason why English educators and learners apply code-switching in learning process is such an interesting topic to be discussed. This research was conducted to collect the information about types of code-switching used in English classroom at a university in Indonesia and the reasons why it was used in English language learning. A qualitative research design was applied in this study. The data was analyzed through a narrative thematic analysis. The result showed that all types of code-switching are used and the reasons why it was used were vary depend on the lecturers’ and students’ arguments.