AN ANALYSIS OF CODE-SWITCHING IN ENGLISH MEETING CLUB (Benteng Panynyua Club in Fort Rotterdam Makassar)

Code-Switching is a phenomenon that may occurs in Bilingual or Multilingual communities.Indonesian students who learn English as Foreign Language tend to find a way to master English by forming or joining an English Meeting Club.Code -Switching occurs when they try Evaporator Fan Motor Mount to speak English in their conversation.The aim of this study is to describe the type of Code-switching used by the members of English meeting club and reason why they did that switching.This research used qualitative method.

The subject of the research was participants of English Non-Toy Meeting Club and the data of Code-switching are taken from recording which was converted into transcription.The result shows that the members of English meeting club did three types of Code-switching.Those are tag-switching, intra-sentential switching and inter-sentential switching.They mostly used intra-sentential switching in their conversation and did the switching to make their utterances acceptable to the hearer.

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