The exploration of the required data was not only in the status update form, but also within the comment feature, wall, and note feature. Noted that many
Facebook users were using some abbreviated words to shorten the sentences without reducing the meaning of the sentences they made. The subsequent step
was to list all the data to the observation form so that the data gathered were easy to be analyzed and comprehended. In addition, the collection of the required data
was started from November 27
th
, 2009 up to December 7
th
, 2009 which resulted with 185 required data.
The second method was conducting some in-depth interview to twenty 20 Facebook users target. The selection of the participants was conducted
randomly. The age of participants was in the range of 15 up to 62 years old came from various social backgrounds. The interviews were conducted from January
20
th
, 2010 up to February 12nd, 2010 with the core question was about their motives of employing code switching in their phrases or sentences they made.
Merriam 2002, p. 13 stated that indices of questions were needed to be guidance within the interviews. The results of in-depth interviewing were recorded in a
recorder. It assisted the researcher to reveal the participants’ reasons of using code switching in their phrases and sentences.
E. Data Analysis Technique
Data analysis was very important to the qualitative research; therefore it was necessary to use the most appropriate method in analyzing the data. Strauss
Corbin 1997 as quoted by Marshall and Rossman 2006 stated that the analysis of qualitative data purpose to obtain general statements of the underlying themes.
Consequently, qualitative data analysis was needed by qualitative researcher because it gave firm practical basis for the research. With the purpose of gaining
qualified data, the researcher followed the structured steps in organizing and analyzing the data of qualitative research which were constructed by Creswell
1998 as cited by Leedy and Ormrod 2005. He created a data analysis spiral which was implemented within the following steps:
1. Organizing the data
The data were taken from pages and they are divided from several features, such as status update form, walls, and notes. In addition, the message
page of the Facebook users was not included because of its privacy of users. In this section, the researcher examined thoroughly phrases and sentences made by
the Facebook users that being targeted. As stated before that the area of exploration in order to get the data required was primarily on status update
feature, walls, and note feature of targets’ Facebook pages. The action afterwards listed the code switching cases in the observation forms.
2. Perusing the data
In this section, the researcher read and examined the data thoroughly so that it assisted the researcher to have an overview of data collected.
3. Identifying general categories and classifying each piece of data
After carrying out the previous steps, the data collected in the observation forms were identified to its categories and then classified the data to their type.
4. Integrating and summarizing the data
Subsequently, the process of integrating and summarizing the data came along after the process of identification of the types of code switching in social
networking website Facebook has been finished. Creswell 1998 suggested that researchers presented the summary in an organizational scheme such as a table,
figure, or diagram. This observation was conducted in order to classify and to reaveal the types of code switching occurred in a social networking website
Facebook. The second method was conducted in order to reveal the reasons of doing
code switching in Facebook. It was employed some in-depth interviewing to participants. The records of the participants or interviewees then write out into
texts, it aims to make easier the researcher in analyzing the data. Therefore, several reasons for employing code switching within Facebook might be
concluded by these in-depth interviewings.
F. Research Procedures
