A Study of Students’ Attitudes Towards The Use of Code Mixing in English Classroom

Abstract

This present study aimed to explore students’ attitudes towards code mixing in English classroom through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. There were 30 students involved and 5 of the students were chosen to be the interviewees. The results from the two instruments showed that the teacher frequently used English with Indonesian in English classroom, but they had a positive attitude. In contrast, the majority of the students were not happy when their teacher used full English in the classroom. They believed that code mixing was a practical solution and strategy applied by the teacher to make them learn English more easily.