Code-switching and Language Learning

19 process of gaining the data is inductive. Second, the researcher tends to gather the data to draw a conclusion rather than to test the hypothesis. In the descriptive research, the form of data can be qualitative −in verbal symbols −or quantitative−in mathematical symbols Dalen, 1973: 195. In this research, qualitative data is employed. Since, qualitative research is basically interpretative, the researcher made an interpretation of the data through narrative description. Furthermore, it includes analyzing data to their theme or category and at the last stage drawing conclusions about the interpretation personally as well as theoretically Wolcott, 1994 as cited in Creswell, 2003: 182. Document analysis was used to answer the first question. According to Leedy and Ormrod 2005: 142, a document analysis was typically performed on a form of human communication, including books, newspapers, magazine, films, television, art, music, videotapes and transcript of conversation. In this research, the researcher analyzed a magazine which contains English code-switching. This methodology was used to find out the types of code-switching cases found in the magazine. Meanwhile, to find out the answer to the second question, the researcher employed library study. The researcher analyzed some written sources to find out the answer to the second question. There were two kinds of sources in this study. The first was InfoKomputer magazine, in which the code-switching cases were found, and the second was the theory of reasons for code-switching. 20

A. Research Setting

Since the researcher employs document analysis and library study, thus it is not necessary to have a specific setting to conduct the research. The research was done in Jogjakarta. The researcher needed five months to finish this research. This research started from February 2012 and finished in June 2012.

B. Research Subject

In this research, the articles of InfoKomputer magazine were considered as the subject of the research, since this research focused on code-switching phenomenon in magazine. The researcher employed two editions of the magazine. They were January and February 2012 editions. Thus, the researcher would get sufficient data to be analyzed. The data was taken from the articles of the magazines. In order to make the analysis easier, the researcher also classified the data from each magazine into five kinds of data category namely news, opinion, feature, advertisement and fiction. News is “Information that is published in newspapers and broadcasted on radio and television about recent events in the country or world or in a particular area of activity” Sinclair, 2001. In this research news is the article which contains a report of events, recent issues and recent information about computer, smartphone, software and hardware. Opinion is an article which shows someone’s feeling and idea about something. Feature is special article and regular article which always appear in InfoKomputer magazine. Feature covers some rubrics such as the testing result of some gadgets, hardware