Reasons for Mixing English Words on Facebook Post

Abstract

In conversatin, billinguals may tend to do code mixing. The development of the internet offers a new medium for communication, know as Compoter Mediated Communication(CMC) where cod mixing continues to occur. The occurrence of code mixing is based onseveral reasons (Hoffman, 1991: Kow, 2003). This research was conducted to investigate the reasons people mix English words on Facebook. To fulfill the aim of this study, there were seven Indonesia English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learmers as Facebook users selected in this study. Two instruments were used to get the data, observatins and interviews. Observations were integrated to look for posts consisting if mixes of Indonesia and English words.From the observations, 3 posts from each participant were used as the data. After analyzed the posts, the participants were then interwiewed to investigate their reasons in mixing English words into their posts. The occurrences of mixing English words were analyzed using Kow's (2003) 10 conditions. The results showed that there were only 4 reasons identified under the 10 conditions and there were other outside the 10 conditions. These differeces might come from the fact that Kow's (2003) lassification were based on spoken interection, while this study was conducted under CMC environtment where spoken and written features are both incorporated in the interactions.