EFL Teachers’ Code-Switching and Students’ Attitudes Towards it at VIII Grade MTsN Agam

This research focused on types, function and students‟ attitudes towards teachers‟ code-switching in teaching English language at VIII grade MTsN Agam. This research aimed to: 1) find out the types of code-switching used by the teacher in teaching English at VIII grade MTsN Agam. 2) find out the functions of code switching used by the teacher in teaching English. 3) find out the students‟ attitudes towards teachers‟ code-switching in learning English. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research. The participants of this study were students at VIII grade and English teachers. The instruments of data collection were recoding, interview, and questionnaire. The result found that all the teachers in two schools MTsN 6 Agam and MTsN 7 Agam used code switching English to Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Indonesia to English in classroom learning. The total data 506 code-switching occurred, 134 times for teacher A, 145 times for Teacher B, 107 times for Teacher C, and 120 for teacher D which the total types of code switching were 131 for inter sentential switching, 316 for intra-sentential switching and 59 for tag-switching. Meanwhile, the total functions performed by four teachers were 12 for quotation, 95 for addressee specifications, 104 for repetitions, 49 for interjections, 114 for message qualifications, and 52 for personalization vs objectivization. This research also found that the students‟ attitude towards teachers‟s code-switching categorized a positive attitude. It was from the questionnaires that were given to students. The result showed that teachers use code-switching in classroom learning using English-Bahasa Indonesian or vice versa. The teachers' goals in using code-switching were varied based on their own reason and function. Furthermore, there were some situations in which they were consent in using code-switching.