EKSISTENSI VARIETAS BAHASA INGGRIS DAN BAHASA INGGRIS STANDAR

Flora Deborah Floris (Departemen Bahasa Inggris Fakultas Sastra Universitas Kristen Petra)

Jurnal bahasa, sastra, seni, dan pengajarannya
Vol 38, No 1 (2010)

English is not only used by people from ENL (English as a Native Lan- guage) countries to communicate with people from ESL (English as a Second Lan- guage) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) countries or vice versa, but it even functions as a lingua franca among non-native speakers. As a result, English varie- ties or Englishes emerged. This paper proposes an argument that the coexistence of both  standard  and varieties of English is equally important