Code Switching Is a Common Practice among Bilinguals

There are various factors that make people use code switching in their communication activity. It can be caused by the context of situation and addressing agreement, etc. Code switching arises when the people acquire at least two languages or two language varieties and it usually called as bilingualism. Poeple use code switching as a way to deal with more than one langauge in any situation. Sometimes, it is very short utterance.

They use code switching to communicate with other people is under certain circumstance. Changing language is practical behavior that categorized into unmarked choice. The reasons why they change language are depended on the language user. They have certain reason to do it.  In simply, what Coulmas says about unmarked choice is covered code switching.

For example:

Kamu harus aware dengan hal-hal kecil sebab dari hal kecil ini power mu di perusahaan justru akan meningkat, so mereka akan lebih respect sama kamu.

          Using word aware, power, so and respect in Indonesia sentences is called code switching. The speaker uses code switching because the idea cannot be expressed in one language variety. Another reason why he use code switching is personal reason. In simply, he will feel  pleasant or got personal pleasure if he uses that word. Furthermore, the main point of the sentence can be delivered effectively by the speaker then it can be understood more easily by addresse.

Standard English is a Choice

Using Standard English in educational environment is very crucial. Standard English play an important in teaching and learning process. It is a tool to bridge the gap of students who come from different geographical area. Teacher should acquire Standard English to communicate with students effectively.As we know that students come from different geographical area. They bring various backgrounds and particular identity such as local language. The used of different language will be a barrier of transferring knowledge or information in learning process so we have to choose standard English to make the generalization of language. Teaching language is not only taught spoken text but also written text. We cannot control student if we use non-standard English because it cannot be measured.  

Standard English has formal structure that can be taught systematically by the teacher.  The systematic language is easier to be understood by the students. They can construct sentence in spoken and written context. In other word, to build communication in Standard English is more effective than to build communication in Non-Standard English.

Homogenization’ Takes Place in Urban Society

 

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Urban society consists of people who have   heterogeneity in many aspects. They come from different    geographical area that brings their identity such as language.  In fact, they should deal with the homogenization       because of profession, business, education, social class,   etc. Then, the heterogeneity automatically disappear because the necessity to build an effective communication. They cannot use their local language variety because not all of the people can understand the meaning. The communication will be one side communication and there is no feedback whereas one the purpose in building communication is to get feedback from the people.  

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The other reason is about the prestige. The modernity of  urban society asks the people to use everything in general version included the use of language. People usually prefer to use national language than local language to diminish the gap between the language users. National language such as Bahasa Indonesia has high acceptability and it can be used in almost context and situation.