ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM STUDENT’S PERCEPTION AT MAHASARASWATI DENPASAR UNIVERSITY ON CODE MIXING OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Code mixing occurs when bilingual people mix the language from one code to another without changing the topic in their utterance. This study concerned with code mixing found in English Study Program students’ responses in Google Form. There are two aims in this study, those are (1) to find out the way Mahasaraswati Denpasar University English Study Program students do code mixing in social media; and (2) to analyze Mahasaraswati Denpasar University English Language Study Program students’ perception toward code mixing in social media. In this study, the descriptive qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyze the data. The data were taken from English Language Study Program students’ responses in Google Form by conducting survey and interview method. The finding of data analysis was presented in formal and informal method. This study applied the theory from Hoffman (1991) to compare with English students’ responses about the way they did code mixing on social media and used Ulya’s formula (2015) to analyzed closed questions about English students’ perception on code mixing in Google Form. There are five categories of English students’ responses about the way do code mixing such as based on frequency, interlocutors, topics, code used, and the language in the unit sentences with code mixing. For the interview, this study found four similarities with reason of using code mixing by Hoffman’s theory. The reasons are talking about a particular topic, intention of clarifying the speech content for the interlocutor, interjections and being emphatic about something. In addition, there are also five differences. For the English students’ perception, most of them gave positive perception toward code mixing and other gave contrast perception.