Cindy Clarissa Aris. 2018. Code Switching Used by the Teacher in Teaching English at SMP Negeri 3 Palopo ( supervised by Sri Damayanti and Reski Yusrini Islamiah Yunus).
This research aims to determine the types of code switching used by teacher in teaching and why teacher apply code switching in teaching English. This research was conducted using qualitative research on august 2022 at SMP Negeri 3 Palopo, the data collected is through observation and interview with teacher at the research side. From the data that the researcher got, it is known phenomenon of code switching carried out by teacher in learning English there are three type namely, (1) Tag switching means inserting utterances that function as reinforcements to emphasize the intent of an utterance, this type is the type of code switching that the teacher used the least which is eight utterances. (2) Inter sentential switching means to transfer one language to another language with the meaning contained remains the same, this type is quite often used by teacher in teaching there are thirty four utterances. (3) Intra sentential switching means a shift from one language to another in other words mixing languages in clauses or sentences, this type that is very often used by teacher in teaching there are eighty four utterances. The eighth grade English teacher of SMP Negeri 3 Palopo very often used code switching when teaching English because students are confused if it is not varied between English and Indonesian, therefore almost every teaching used code switching and she realizes that because it is often done when teaching the main purpose do code switching so that students understand what is being conveyed and students also understand what they are going to do.