nguage, in this case is Bahasa Indonesia into English. The type of code switching they used also may be variant. The type of code switching they used may depend on the reason or the factor of the code switching they have.
It is interesting to see how the code switching use by the bilinguals on their facebook comments is. The users may have reasons why they switch their Bahasa Indonesia into English when they write the comments. Then, the researcher is challenged to conduct a research about the code switching found in facebook comments. Then, the researcher explore it on a paper entitled “Code Switching on Facebook Comments (An Analysis of Types and Reasons of Code Switching Written by the 8th Semester Students of English Department)”
B. Statement of Problems
The phenomenon of code switching has become an interesting topic to be discussed, especially code switching found in facebook comments. Since this social network appears at 2004, it has large members, and it may lead the members that are mostly teenagers, including the students of English Department as the learners of English as Foreign Language to begin imitating the way they communicate to each other. Getting loose from the reasons why they are choosing facebook to communicate one each other, in their daily day, they seems cannot stop to be exist on facebook. Most of them use facebook as media to communicate one to each other. They, who has Bahasa Indonesia as their first language and English as another language they study in depth, often switch their first language into English when they writing comments on facebook. This phenomenon called as Code Switching. Considering the phenomena of code switching doing by the Learners of English as Foreign Language, especially the students of English Department that broadly appears on facebook, this research is conducted to observe this phenomenon more deeply. This research specifically observes the code switching written by the 8th semester students of English Department of Adab and Humanity Faculty of Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung State Islamic University that joined together on Spartan Lovers Association (SLA) group on facebook.
So, the questions for the research are formulated as follows:
1. What are the types of code switching written by the 8th semester students of English Department found in facebook comments?
2. What are the possible reasons of the 8th semester students of English Department switch their Bahasa Indonesia into English on facebook comments?
C. Purpose and Significance of Research
1. Purpose of Research
There are two main purposes of this research, they are:
1. To know what the type of code switching written by the 8th semester students of English Department found in facebook comments is.
2. To recognize the possible reasons of the 8th semester students of English Department switch their Bahasa Indonesia into English on facebook comments.
2. Significance of Research
The result of the research is expected to be used as one of the sources of information about the code switching on social networking facebook. This might be used as a reference for those who are interested in the subject of sosioliguistics. This research can be used as alternative for learning the development of language and its phenomenon. The researcher will describe the language and phenomenon, especially the code switching through the sociolinguistics theory.
D. Conceptual Framework
According to Myres and Scotton (2006), the most general definition of codeswitching is this: the use of two language varieties in the same conversation. Code-switching can be distinguished from other language contact phenomena such as loan translation (calques), borrowing, pidgins and creoles, and transfer or interference. According to Hoffman (1991: 112), there are 5 types of code switching, there are:
In this kind of code switching, tags and certain set phrases in one language are inserted into an utterance otherwise in another. For example:
Hurray!! Akhirnya akku menemukanmu kamu disini.
This kind of code switching occurs within a clause or sentence boundary, 