CODE – SWITCHING IN LYRICS of JARAN GOYANG AND MY HONEY

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English has big influence. Indonesia takes it as Foreign Language and put it as one subject that must be learned by students. Nowadays, many people use it either purely in their daily conversation or mix it with Bahasa Indonesia. English also appears in the advertisements in magazines, newspapers, radios, televisions, etc which all those magazines, newspapers, radios and television are Indonesian ones. The people do code-switching of English words with Bahasa Indonesia. The code-switching of English with Bahasa Indonesia also can be seen in the lyrics of Indonesian dangdut  songs. Actually, it is not only English switch in Bahasa indonesia, other languages such as Korean, Japanese, is also mixed with and English  takes the most foreign language to be mixed since long time ago, even, it can be found out in the song of Kopral Jono as one of the national Indonesian songs which is created in the forties. In the song there are lyrics “Aksimu bung very good seperti mas Robin Hood”. If it was already found in the national song in 1940s we can imagine how big the effect of English in the songs in millenial years.