Code Switching in the Formation of Students’ Communicative Competence

Language switching, also known as code-switching, is a sociolinguistic phenomenon in which speakers switch between two or more languages. Thisresearch aims to determine the types of teacher code-switching that occurs during the teaching and learning process in English classes. The study applied a study of semantic and interpretation research. Fragments of Modern English fiction were used to collect the illustrative data, analyzed on the basis of code-switching theory. Specifically, this study examines types and functions of code switching in the characters’ conversations to exemplify the types of code-switching, whereas the functions of the phenomenon under consideration are viewed through the prism of methodology in connection to the English language teaching and learning. The study states that teachers apply three types of code switching, namely: intrasentential code switching, inter-sententialcode switching, and tag switching. By using code switching, the teacher is primarily aiming to reduce students' misunderstanding of the lesson or their difficulty comprehending the English lesson offered by the English teacher.