Code Alternations in Bilingual Representation and a Communication Strategy in Tuan Guru Bajang’s Islamic Speech

Abstract

<p>The present writing is a study of code alternation in <em>TGB</em>’s Islamic speech. <em>TGB</em> which stands for “<em>Tuan Guru Bajang</em>” is a well-known name for Dr. M. Zainul Majdi, M.A, a famous Islamic preacher in Lombok and at present, he is the governor of West Nusa Tenggara province. The data of this study were obtained from one of <em>TGB</em>’s Islamic speech recordings. They were first classified into inter-sentential switching, tag-switching, and intra-sentential switching and then they were analyzed to know their functions which involve a topic switch, effective and repetitive functions. The findings show that intra-sentential switching which reflects repetitive function appeared most frequently in <em>TGB</em>’s Islamic speech. The code alternation in <em>TGB</em>’s Islamic speech represents bilingualism and has proved to be an effective strategy in communication.</p>

Code Switching Used by English Teacher in Teaching English at the Second Grade of Sman 1 Aek Natas

“…To make students understand, teachers sometimes have to switch from English as their second language in learning English to Indonesian as the student's first language or vice versa. Richards and Schmidt in Thohir (2017) state that code switching is a change by a speaker (or writer) from one language or language variety to another. The main goal of code switching is to convey messages or information from speaker to listener directly and to make good communication between them.…”