The study of language attitude of Sundanese society in cities in West Java toward Sundanese language based on educational background  

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Mulyanah, Ade

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 15 : Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Kelima Belas, page 90-94.
Topik: language attitude; cities in Wast Java; education background; PERDA Jabar
Fulltext: 90-94 (Ade Mulyanah - OK).pdf (382.52KB)

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This study aims to investigate the language attitudes of Sundanese in cities in West Java based on educational background by employing a questionnaire survey. The method of the study is quantitative method. The writer seeks to reveal the language attitude related to education of the respondents. The ethno-lingusitic situation is that West Java is a province where most of people speak Sundanese, as their mother tongue. It supports the writer to finds description of Sundanese toward their mother tounge has aroused the writer’s interest in exploring Sundanese people’s attitudes in cities in West Java toward their mother tongue . It is of great importance to understand people’s attitudes towards their mother tongue. The instrument of the study is sociolinguistic questionnaire. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the writer selected a sample that consists of 500 Sundanese respondents who reside in cities in West Java (Bandung, Bogor, and Bekasi) based on their educational background. The research tries to reveal the type of respondents’ educational background related knowledge of local language policy issued by local government in form of PERDA, their language attitude of Sundanese people in cities in West Java toward Sundanese language, and th effect of language attitude and knowledge of local language policy issued by local government in form of PERDA. The result of the research shows that (1) the level of educational having the knowledge of local language policy issued by government is master graduate group ( 46.67%), (2) the category of respondents having the most positive attitude toward Sundanese language is junior high school students (63.83%), (3) the language attitude of Sundanese risiding in cities in West Java is categorized quite good, (4) and the most striking finding is that there is no effect between their knowledge of local language policy issued by the government with their language attitude. It can be seen from the amount of significance is 0,0625%. The rest of amount is influenced by other variables ( 99,9375% ).

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