LINGUISTIK TERAPAN
Vol 16, No 2 (2019)

THE REASONS OF STUDENTS REALIZING THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD ENGLISH CONVERSATIONS CLASS

Mara Sutan Siregar (Universitas Negeri Medan)
Amrin Saragih (Universitas Negeri Medan)
Rahmad Husein (Universitas Negeri Medan)



Article Info

Publish Date
08 Dec 2019

Abstract

English conversation is an important lesson for Senior High School students in order to face the globalization effects. Many students considered English conversation as a controversial lesson through their positive and negative attitudes toward it. This study aimed to reason for the Senior High School students realize their attitudes toward English conversation class in the ways they are. This qualitative study was conducted at the twelfth grade of Senior High School students. The subjects of this study were 20 students consisting of 11 females and 9 males at the age of 16-18 years old. The data were collected by observations and interviews then were analyzed using Interactive Models. The result showed that there were four reasons of the students realized their attitudes i.e. the (1) language pride, (2) awareness of language norms, and the new findings were (3) motivation to get the job, and (4) lack of skill. It was concluded that the students’ attitudes varied as to positive and negative ones and realized in numerous manners affected by several factors.Keywords: language, attitudes, conversations

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Journal Info

Abbrev

LTBI

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal Linguistik Terapan is a peer-reviewed journal that supports research in the field of Linguistics, Literature, and English Language Teaching. This Journal aims to publish academic research on applied linguistics relevant to actual issues and to be a publication platform for original research ...