Language Production among Multilingual Children: Insights on Code Mixing

Code mixing is a common phenomenon in today's society, occurring various settings such as schools, buses, and offices. This refers to the use of more than one language element (code) by multilingual speakers. The purpose this research identify types forms code used students analyze factors involved. utterances are classified into three types: insertion, substitution, congruence. study uses qualitative method among five aged 4-5 years. results showed that international school class there were 20 code-mixed which involved Mandarin, Indonesian English. Of these incidents, 14 them insertion mixing. indicates most type children mixing, non-matrix words phrases (Chinese Indonesian) inserted matrix (English). due fact come from different ethnic backgrounds some speak Mandarin their mother tongue.