The popularity of Instagram made people increasingly use it well, one of which is to learn new languages. English as an international language is a language that is being encouraged to be mastered by people. The objective of this study is to know how EFL students use Instagram as an English learning medium. The data collected was from ELESP students’ batch 19-21 who learn English with Instagram as the learning medium. This study was conducted in a descriptive qualitative method by distributing an open-ended questionnaire. This study result showed that ELESP students have a positive perception of Instagram usage as the learning medium to learn English. ELESP students deliver how Instagram can enhance vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation knowledge, and also gain new information.
Code-switching is a socio-linguistic phenomenon that often happens in our daily life. This study is conducted to analyse code-switching that happen in the movie “Luca”, which is the most streamed movie in 2021. There are two research questions of this study, which are what are the types of code-switching used in the movie? And what are the functions of the code-switching used in the movie? The qualitative method is used in this study. To collect the data, the researcher will search for the movie and the movie’s script on the internet. After collecting the data, the researcher will watch the movie while reading the script. Then, search the meaning of each code-switching, and group the types and functions. The study found that there are three types of code-switching used in the movie which are inter-sentential, intra-sentential, and tag-switching. The most frequent code-switching types used are inter-sentential and tag-switching, which are 39,72% and 20,56%. There are 4 types of code-switching used in the movie, which are referential, directive, expressive, and phatic functions. The most frequent code-switching function used is directive, which is 38,35%.
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