Abstract:
The study examines the language used by students in Javanese art performance in junior
high school. The studentswho are multilingual tried to portrayJavanese, English, Bahasa
combined with their accent of Pekalongan Javanese. This language context association process
may represent students’ knowledge. The art performance is story telling about fable and it is in
Javanese combining with Pekalongan accent. The aims of the study are to explain the
conversational functions of code switching occuring in Javanese Performing art done by
students of SMPN 1 Kesesi and to describe the factors accounted for the code switching. The
study is descriptive qualitative. This methodology are recorded, transcribed, identified,
categorized and reduced. Finally, the classification falls into 6 conversational functions. Factors
such as participants, topics, setting, attitudes, values and culture accounted for switching codes
at Javanese art performance in SMPN 1 KesesiKabupatenPekalongan, Central Java. The result
of the analysis also shows that 3 languages are used by students in switching codes.
Keywords: code switching, story telling, multilingual.
