KENDALA-KENDALA PENGUASAAN BAHASA MELAYU STANDARD DALAM KALANGAN PELAJAR MELAYU DI SEKOLAH PONDOK DI PATANI, THAILAND

Phaosan Jehwae (Alumni Universiti Brunei Darussalam dan sekarang bertugas di Jabatan Bahasa Melayu, Universiti Fatoni, Thailand)

Tamaddun: Jurnal Kebudayaan dan Sastra Islam
Vol 16 No 1 (2016): Tamaddun: Jurnal Kebudayaan dan Sastra Islam

Language represents the nation. From language expressed, the one can know from the community where they came from. Therefore, language is one of the nation's character -forming which should be maintained. If the mother tongue is missing, the nation will lose its identity. In the case of Patani Malay community in Thailand, the mastery of Malay increasingly eroded. As an ethnic minority, politically they were driven by Thailand's national language. Moreover, the Malay language is not used as the language of instruction and official language of science in Thailand. In fact, the Malay vocabulary began to lose its original meaning because of the interaction between this language and other foreign languages. This article shows the negative impact of all of these conditions on the mastery of the standard Malay for the educated Malays in Thailand. In general, the Malay students in Thailand is not much else to master Malay Standard.