An Analysis of English Language Teaching Department Students' Perspectives Toward English

Abstract

There are many kinds of perspectives toward English around the world, for example, English as foreign language, lingua franca, global language, etc,withtheir own characteristics. In Indonesia,there are possibly some perspectives as well. This descriptive quantitative research investigates on which perspectives are applicable in Indonesia based on English Language Teaching Department (ELTD) students? point of view. Questionnaires were distributed to 100 ELTD students.The questionnaires were about some statements toward English among ELTD students.The students need to answer it by choosing number 1-5 that indicated strongly disagree to strongly agree. As the result, the researcher found that ELTD students have 3 perspectives toward English. Based on the rank, the participants regarded English as global language first, English as an additional language second, and English as a foreign language third