The purpose of the research is to identify types and to explain the function of code switching which are produced in discussion activities in English class. Descriptive analysis was used as the method of the study. The participants were twelve students of STEKOM that take English 3 class. The utterances produced by the students and lecturer in discussion activity become the data of study. The result showed the total number of code switching in discussion activities was 165 utterances. Based on grammatical classification, it was found 77 utterances or 46.67% for inter-sentential, 61 utterances or 36.97% for intra-sentential and 27 utterances or 16.36% for tag-switching. Based on contextual classification, it was found 106 utterances or 64.24% for situational and 59 utterances or 35.76% for metaphorical. The function of code switching often used by the students was to emphasis the meaning of utterances. It holds 45 utterances or 27.27% from all utterances. From this research, it can be concluded that code switching cannot be avoided in English teaching in STEKOM. It is because the students do not take English as their major so they lack of English vocabulary. In addition, code switching happened in order to make understandable meaning among them.
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Code_Switching_in_Discussion_Activities_in_English_Class.pdf