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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIndonesia is a multilingual speech community with two main groups of
languages, Standard Indonesian and vernacular languages. As a result, people talk
in more than one language. This also occurs in Petra Christian University (PCU)
particularly the Kupangese students. The writer wants to see what the language
varieties are used by the Kupangese senior and junior students, the differences in
their code choice and the factor that may affect them to use a certain code. The
writer used the theory of language varieties, code choices, code switching and
code mixing, the social factor that may influence the code choice, and the
characteristic of each code in order to analyze the data. The writer used qualitative
descriptive approach. She was the instrument of this study by observing and
interviewing the senior and the junior students. The data were the transcription of
the utterances produced by Kupangese students. From the analysis, she discovered
that the code choices used by the senior and junior are different. The influence of
talking to different ethnic group somehow had caused the differences. The
differences can be observed from the code choices used when they were talking
with people from different ethnic background, and the Javanese, Jakartanese and
English words that they produced. The ethnicity of the interlocutors in a way
seemed to affect the code choices of the Kupangese students. Moreover, Kupang
Malay is the dominant code used. The writer concludes that the Kupangese
students still maintain their mother tongue despite the fact that they were
interacting with people from different ethnic groups.