A Descriptive Study on the Students’ Attitude Toward English in a Multilingual Classroom

DOI

10.2991/icesre-18.2019.1How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Attitude, English, Multilingual

Abstract

this study was a descriptive study on the students’ attitude toward English in a multilingual classroom. The subject of the research were 15 students of 8 C in SMPN 2 Singkawang. The research method used was quantitative descriptive analysis by administering simple statistics that describe central tendencies and variation such as means and percentage. The questionnaire was adapted from Elisabeth E. Lefebvre (2012) in her research about the multilingual education. From the data analysis were found that the students’ language background was varied in Malay, Indonesian, and Chinese language. The students’ response indicates that they were happy when the teacher use English in the classroom. The same result also happen to the students’ attitude toward Indonesian language. But, from the activity of language learning stated in the questionnaire, the students were happy when it comes to speaking activity, neutral in reading, and unhappy in writing activity.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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