Purpose of the Study Research Questions Significance of the Study

Riska Linawatii, 2015 Code switching : The use of L1 in teaching English speaking skill at a junior high school in Bandung Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu conditions will affect the teacher’s preference in switching the language in conveying the purpose to the students. Related to the preference in switching the language in the teaching and learning process, teacher has to use the English as much as possible and encourage the students to use English or target language as much as they can Gao Dai, 2007, as cited in Tian, 2014, p. 43. In teaching and learning process, both teacher and students have important role in achieving objective of the lesson completely. As an organizer, the teacher should be able to organize them in doing activity, give instruction, put them in group, etc to improv e the students’ competence and performance in English Harmer, 2007, p. 58. Related to this condition, investigate the teacher’s switching, know about causes of his her switching to L1, and know about students’ perception toward this switching are considered essential. A teacher should be able to show his her capability and know what he she exactly doing is, to help the students in understanding the lesson. This kind of teacher’s professionalism will affect the students’ respect to the teacher him herself Harmer, 2007, p. 128. Therefore, know about the students’ perception will benefit the teacher to make some changes or developments in doing the better teaching.

1.2 Purpose of the Study

In the previous section, background information of the present study has been presented. The purposes of the study are elaborated in this section. The purpose of the study is to explore the insights of code switching to Indonesian or Sundanese L1 which takes place in the classroom between teacher and students in the process of teaching and learning English speaking skill; where the teacher explains the lesson. It includes types of code switching that takes place Riska Linawatii, 2015 Code switching : The use of L1 in teaching English speaking skill at a junior high school in Bandung Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu in teacher’s switching, causes that trigger the teacher in switching to L1, and students’ perception towards the teacher’s switching. In addition, this study hopefully gives knowledge or additional insights for the teachers in switching to Indonesian appropriately in helping and empowering the students in learning English speaking skill. As a point to be underlined, the measurement of code switching is undertaken only for the teacher’s discourse excluding students’ questions and answers since the study concerns on the code switching to Indonesian which is done by the teacher in explaining the topic.

1.3 Research Questions

As noted in introduction and purposes of the study section, several issues of the code switching has been presented. Three research questions coherent to the purpose of the study are as follow: a. What types of code switching are used by the teacher in the teaching and learning English speaking skill process? b. What causes influence the teacher in switching to L1? c. What are students’ perceptions towards the teacher’s switching to L1 in the teaching and learning process?

1.4 Significance of the Study

It is expected that the study is able to make at least one benefit or contribution on the areas of teaching English as a Foreign Language TEFL. Riska Linawatii, 2015 Code switching : The use of L1 in teaching English speaking skill at a junior high school in Bandung Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu Through this investigation, it is hoped that the result could give new insights for English teachers in implementing the switching based on their purposes and beliefs toward it. In addition, it is also expected that the present study could bring awareness and consciousness to the teacher in implementing better classroom interaction and achieving objectives of the lesson in teaching English speaking skill. In other words, this study wants to give benefit to the teacher in teaching to improve the students’ ability in area of speaking skill. Moreover, the result of this study is expected to give some contributions theoretically, professionally, and practically. Theoretically, hopefully the result of this study can enrich the theory of classroom code switching to L1 in TEFL context. Professionally, this study can hopefully be reference for further study regarding the field of classroom code switching to L1. Practically, the result of this study hopefully can give benefit for pedagogical implication served as consideration for English teacher to have more awareness in using L1 appropriately in teaching English.

1.5 Scope of the Study