Examining language attitudes and use: A survey of Indonesian university students’ loyalty to their ethnic languages
Currently, a large number of ethnic languages worldwide are losing their vitality and popularity due to globalization and the influence of dominant languages such as English and Indonesian. Such a linguistic decline is both unsettling and disheartening because, in reality, this loss not only means a...
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| description | Currently, a large number of ethnic languages worldwide are losing their vitality and popularity due to globalization and the influence of dominant languages such as English and Indonesian. Such a linguistic decline is both unsettling and disheartening because, in reality, this loss not only means a loss of communication tools but also a loss of identities and values. Against such a backdrop, this study aims to investigate Indonesian university students’ attitudes to their ethnic languages and to explore the factors that influence students’ fluency in their ethnic languages. To conduct this study, the qualitative method was used, and the data were obtained using questionnaires distributed to 78 university students from 10 universities across Indonesia through Google Forms. These participants were purposively selected from 18 different ethnic groups, including Ambonese, Balinese, and Sundanese. The findings indicate that there are various factors affecting the participants’ fluency in their languages, namely domestic use of their ethnic languages and parental encouragement, which turned out to positively affect fluency and cross-ethnic marriages and relocation of environments, which negatively impacted the participants’ fluency. Therefore, this study recommends two strategies to preserve ethnic languages: (1) teaching programs for ethnic languages: schools should administer classes to support students from ethnic-language-deprived backgrounds, and (2) local government policies: they are expected to issue and implement policies that encourage and protect the use of ethnic languages among younger generations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-043e1d2f11524b51b288f79d6da4361c2025-08-20T03:01:29ZengUniversitas Pendidikan IndonesiaIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics2301-94682502-67472024-05-0114110411710.17509/ijal.v14i1.7036425327Examining language attitudes and use: A survey of Indonesian university students’ loyalty to their ethnic languagesDingding Haerudin0Ruswan Dallyono1Usep Kuswari2Dedi Koswara3Sundanese Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas Pendidikan IndonesiaEnglish Language and Literature Study Program, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas Pendidikan IndonesiaSundanese Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas Pendidikan IndonesiaSundanese Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas Pendidikan IndonesiaCurrently, a large number of ethnic languages worldwide are losing their vitality and popularity due to globalization and the influence of dominant languages such as English and Indonesian. Such a linguistic decline is both unsettling and disheartening because, in reality, this loss not only means a loss of communication tools but also a loss of identities and values. Against such a backdrop, this study aims to investigate Indonesian university students’ attitudes to their ethnic languages and to explore the factors that influence students’ fluency in their ethnic languages. To conduct this study, the qualitative method was used, and the data were obtained using questionnaires distributed to 78 university students from 10 universities across Indonesia through Google Forms. These participants were purposively selected from 18 different ethnic groups, including Ambonese, Balinese, and Sundanese. The findings indicate that there are various factors affecting the participants’ fluency in their languages, namely domestic use of their ethnic languages and parental encouragement, which turned out to positively affect fluency and cross-ethnic marriages and relocation of environments, which negatively impacted the participants’ fluency. Therefore, this study recommends two strategies to preserve ethnic languages: (1) teaching programs for ethnic languages: schools should administer classes to support students from ethnic-language-deprived backgrounds, and (2) local government policies: they are expected to issue and implement policies that encourage and protect the use of ethnic languages among younger generations.https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/IJAL/article/view/70364attitudecross-ethnic marriageethnic languagelanguage loyaltyuniversity students |
| spellingShingle | Dingding Haerudin Ruswan Dallyono Usep Kuswari Dedi Koswara Examining language attitudes and use: A survey of Indonesian university students’ loyalty to their ethnic languages Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics attitude cross-ethnic marriage ethnic language language loyalty university students |
| title | Examining language attitudes and use: A survey of Indonesian university students’ loyalty to their ethnic languages |
| title_full | Examining language attitudes and use: A survey of Indonesian university students’ loyalty to their ethnic languages |
| title_fullStr | Examining language attitudes and use: A survey of Indonesian university students’ loyalty to their ethnic languages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Examining language attitudes and use: A survey of Indonesian university students’ loyalty to their ethnic languages |
| title_short | Examining language attitudes and use: A survey of Indonesian university students’ loyalty to their ethnic languages |
| title_sort | examining language attitudes and use a survey of indonesian university students loyalty to their ethnic languages |
| topic | attitude cross-ethnic marriage ethnic language language loyalty university students |
| url | https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/IJAL/article/view/70364 |
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