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Female Readers' Perception of Code Swiching Phenomenon on GURU in GIRLFRIEND Magazines By: Qisti Triani
1.1 Background Heredian and Brown say that code switching occurs when bilinguals substitute a word or phrase from one languages with a phrase or aword from another language .
People code switch because she wants to express solidarity with a particular social group In same cases people sometimes switch language to show a close relationship with other
Girlfriend magazine has segmented reader with ages ranging from 16 to 23 years old. The rubric published in this magazine are on the cover, up the front, every month, features, fashion and beauty, guru ,boyfriend and front row
CHAPTER 2 T H E O R E T I C A L F O U N D AT I O N
theories of perception theories of code switching Theories of code switching in magazine previous studies on code switching
The internal factors are as follows: -phsycologycal needs, -personal backgroud, -experience, -personality, - atittude and general belief, self-acceptance
the external factors influencing perception are as follows: -intesity, size, -contrast, -movement, -repitition, -intimacy, -novelty
bridge from known (native language) to unknown (foreign language) where the code switchers automatically can learn the new words in the foreign language. (by sert 2005) The disadvantages: handling a multilingual classrooms which do not share the same native language may cause problems as some students will be neglected. (by cook 2002)
Qualitative approach
of Guru rubric in Girlfriend magazine from the editions of June-October 2010. 20 respondent females from different ages
DATA COLLECTION
Triangulation method (survey, interviews, and
documents analysis).
DATA ANALYSIS
Instrument:
Open/Close Questionnaire 2. Open/Close Interview After the data were collected from the two types of instruments, the collected data were analyzed.
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Analyzing
In
analyzing the data, from open-ended questionnaire and the interview, Researcher used coding procedure. he put straight lines under the statements that conveyed readers perception of code switching issue, and also utterances that stated about functions, advantages, and disadvantages of code switching. He also wrote codes near the lines such as P for positive, N for negative, F for function A for Advantages, and D for disadvantages.
The data from close-ended questionnaire analyze by following steps: a) Discovering the percentage of each response per items b) Calculating the frequency (fo) of the respondents who answer an item of each question c) Calculating the percentage of each total frequency of respondents answer to item by using this formula: Total respondent who answers the item Percentage (100 %) = X 100% Total respondent d) Tabulating some statements, frequency, and the percentage e) Calculating the total frequency and the average percentage f) Classifying the average percentage into the form of interval g) Making the report
4.1 Findings
code switching Female readers perception about the advantages and the disadvantages of code switching.
code switching
Close-Ended Questionnaires Open-Ended Questionnaire Interview
4.2 Discussions
Female readers perception of code switching
Close-Ended Questionnaires
From the analysis results, it was found that the best part of all respondents perceived positively in responding to the code switching occurrences in the magazine. The data obtained from the close-ended questionnaires show 75% respondents agreed with the code switching on the Guru rubric in Girlfriend magazine and 70% respondents disagreed if the Guru rubric only uses one language.
Open-Ended Questionnaire
when all respondents were asked about their opinion of the English used on Guru rubric, nearly all of the respondents responded positively.
Interview
based on the interview results, when the 10 respondents were asked about their opinion of the code switching in the magazine, all of them (100%) responded positively .
open-ended questionnaires, and interview show 55% of 20 respondents agreed that the function is for giving terms that can not be found in Indonesian, 80% or 16 respondents had the same opinion that the function is for elaborating a particular point. Meanwhile, 70% of all 20 respondents also had the same agreement that the function is for giving more information on a particular issue, and 75% or 15 respondents agreed that the function is for placing emphasis on a particular point.
ended questionnaires, open-ended questionnaires, and interviews, it can be interpreted that the respondents had gained some advantages and disadvantages out of code switching occurrences on Guru rubric. Fifty five percent of 20 (twenty) respondents agreed that the code switching on the Guru rubric made the articles more communicative. Ninety percent of all respondents also answered that the code switching in the rubric influenced their language proficiency.
CHAPTER 5
CONCLUSION & SUGESTION
Conclusion
The fives functions namely parenthesis, emphasis,
quotation, reiteration and untranslatability Advantages namely to gain the students interest, to avoid boredom reading article, to introduce the students to common utterances in english, to show the main points of article Disadvantages are about confusion due to different gramatical pettern between English and indonesia, as for readers who did not understand English, it lesson their reading enjoyment.
Sugestion
Further research are suggested to analyze internal or external factors influencing someones or a groups perception, for example observing factors influencing female perception of sexist language. Another suggestion for further research is analyzing functions of code switching mentioned by respondents and the reasons why they mention them
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