The level of student’s pride in Ruteng (East Nusa Tenggara) high school on Bahasa

Abstract

The younger generation of Indonesia unconsciously affected and following every
development of communication technology that many use a foreign language. The changes of
language attitude of the students is inseparable from the literary situation in Indonesia. Indonesia
society generally are bilingual and multilingual. In the literary situation like that there will be a
language change in behavior that may not support the existence of one of the languages. From the
perspective of sociolinguistics, the phenomenon of language attitude can determine the survival of
the language. The object in this research is SMA 1 (1 High School) Ruteng, Nusa Tenggara Timur
(NTT). The benefits of this research are able to be guidelines for the community's evocative,
especially the young generation in addressing our national language with more pride, because the
language is one of the nation's identity. The results of this research show that 57, 58% feel proud to
use the language of Indonesia, 42.42% regarded English is more attractive than in Bahasa. Students
who support Bahasa became the international language of 29 respondents (87, 88%). The
respondents have thought optimistic Bahasa can exist in an era of globalization only 23 of
respondents (69, 70%) while 10 respondents (30, 30%) were still skeptical that Bahasa became the
international language.