AN ANALYSIS OF CODE-SWITCHING USED IN AARON’S ENGLISH LEARNING CHANNEL

Abstract

Code-switching is a term used when a person switches from one language to other languages. It has various uses and one of them is to teach English to non-native students. The objective of the study is to identify and describe the types of code-switching, the function of code-switching and whether the frequency level of the code-switching changes in the videos of Aaron’s English Channel. The research design of the study is descriptive qualitative method. The source of data was the utterances in Fifteen (15) videos that was taken from “Aaron’s English” YouTube channel. The result of the study indicated that Aaron’s English Channel used three types of code-switching and used five out of seven functions of code-switching in the videos. Moreover, Aaron’s English Channel used three levels of code-switching and the analysis showed that there are changes between older and newer videos, where in older videos Aaron and his team only use less code-switching rather than in the later video.