Bokamba 1989 supported the researcher’s definition of code switching occurred within a social networking website Facebook by stating that “Code switching is
the mixing of words, phrases, and sentences from two distinct grammatical sub systems across sentence boundaries within same speech event.”
There were four steps in order to analyze the types of code switching occurred in a social networking website Facebook, in which became a framework
for the researcher to conduct this research. Those four steps were adopted from Creswell 1998 as cited by Leedy and Ormrod 2005. There were 1 organizing
the data, 2 perusing the data, 3 identifying general categories and classifying each piece of data, and the last 4 integrating and summarizing the data. The
implementation and explanation of each step could be seen in the discussion below.
1. Organize the Data
The data of this research were all code switching cases from Facebook users’ pages; in this case they were the primary friends of the researcher. The
main focus of data taken was collected from utterances written by Facebook users in their status update feature and wall features. The data collection were started
from November 27
th
, 2009 until December 7
th
, 2009, and resulted with 185 code switching cases found in the Facebook pages of primary friends of the researcher.
In this step, the researcher also made two kinds of observation forms in order to help to reveal types of code switching occurred within Facebook. The
first observation form aimed to list all code switching cases, while the other observation form was made after the process of registration of code switching
cases onto the first observation form had done. Therefore, in the range of the date of data collection, the code switching cases found in targeted users were organized
in the observation form, which could be seen in Appendix 1 and Appendix 3. There were many evidences that many Facebook users employed code
switching in their Facebook pages. It could define that they used the language phenomenon prominently. The code switching cases within Facebook mostly
occur within sentences intrasentential switch and only few of them occurred between sentences. Subsequently, those code switching cases were listed in the
observation form by writing them in the contextual utterances and not merely the switched and juxtaposed language elements. Yet, there were some difficulties
arose concerning the utterances made by Facebook users since they shortened some utterances they wrote, but it would not give any distraction to the research
because the researcher could understand what they uttered about. The column of the date of data collected and the name of Facebook users were also accomodated
as well the evidences column. It was important because it could be valid evidence of the existence of code switching within a social networking website Facebook.
2. Peruse the Data
