Dinamika Bahasa dan Budaya
Vol 20 No 2 (2025): Dinamika Bahasa dan Budaya

THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE FEATURES OF INDOGLISH AT JAKARTA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Rahmawati, Debora (Unknown)
Rivalny, Agnechia Friska (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Aug 2025

Abstract

Indoglish (Indonesian English) is becoming the language that is mostly used by Indonesian people. The urgency of English skills encourages people to use English. However, not everyone fluently speaks English due to several factors such as the influence of their first language. This study aims to find the language features of Indoglish, especially in an international university environment with varied cultural backgrounds of Indonesian students. This study also explores the language features of Indoglish by focusing on characteristics in variations which might hinder intelligibility. The features include errors in verb tense markers, auxiliary verbs or verb phrases, active/passive forms, singular/plural noun markers, noun phrase structure, and part of speech. The data were collected from conversations among junior and senior students majoring in English Literature at Jakarta International University. Observation and note-taking were employed in this research to acquire the data. Data analysis was conducted using a descriptive qualitative method. The findings were presented in the form of an analysis of students’ utterances that contained Indoglish features. Therefore, this research contributed to filling the gap in Indoglish studies within international academic settings and helped raise awareness among readers about Indoglish features that are often unconsciously uttered in Indonesia. This research resulted in the students uttering all those 6 features mentioned by Endarto, with the most used feature is Singular/Plural Error in Indonesian English, and the least used is Active/Passive voice in Indoensian English. The researcher also found that another error was massively repeated by the Students. Keywords: Language Features, Language Variation, Indoglish, International Environment, Intelligibility

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Journal Info

Abbrev

fbib1

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Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Dinamika Bahasa dan Budaya is journal published by Fakultas Bahasa dan Ilmu Budaya (FBIB) Unisbank Semarang. It is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to enhancing and disseminating scholarly work in the form of conceptual and research-based articles within the fields of Linguistics and ...