The Influence of Gender in Determining the Language Choice of Teenagers: Sundanese versus Bahasa

Gender; Language; Sundanese The aims of the research are to discover and analyz e the phenomenon of language choice and gender toward teenagers, which will indi cate the language death of Sundanese Language. The query was discovered around 134 (53 males and 81 females) university students, the first and three g rade of Pharmacy and Management Programs at University of Garut. The par ticipants were given ten questions contained the use of language toward thei r males and females friends. Using Chi Square test, the results showed that the influence of gender in determining the language choice of teenagers was id entified. For code-switching, there was no specific difference between males (48) and females (50). However, the difference occurred when females were using cod e-mixing (75) and the number was bigger than males (32). From this inform ation, the study concluded that gender totally influenced the code-mixing amon g teenagers.