The Trajectory of English Foreign Language (EFL) Students’ Language Attitude in Maintaining Local Wisdom using Snowball Sampling Technique Method

Abstract

Indonesia is a multicultural country with more than 6 hundred languages spoken as a means of communication. Most speakers in this country use regional language as their first language, Bahasa Indonesia as their second language, and English as their foreign language. This research aims to describe (a) language trajectory spoken by EFL students; and (b) language attitude of EFL students in maintaining local wisdom. The type of this research is qualitative research which used triangulation to collect the data. The instruments of this research are questionnaire and interview. The population of this research is the English students of STKIP Muhammadiyah Bogor. Snowball sampling is used to take the sample of this research. The collected data are analyzed by using taxonomy theory of language attitude. The result shows that the participants have a positive attitude towards the language use and the local wisdom maintenance. They still manage the local wisdom well and it is reflected in their language use for daily conversation.