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4. Reasons of wanting to learn certain accent

British 16 Prestige 7 Sounds high-classed andor well educated andor expert 3 Because it is British andor beautiful andor elegant unique 3 It is pure 1 Clearness 6 Clear pronunciation andor emphasize 3 Comfortable to be heard Easy to be understood 2 Comfortable to be heard, Easy to be understood clear pronunciation 1 Prestige The use and spread of the accent 2 Standard Commonly used 1 Beautiful Teacher use it 1 Etc 1 American 84 Clearness 60 Comfortable to be heard andor clear andor easy to be understood 56 Clear Appropriate speed of speech 3 Clear, easy to be understood correct intonation 1 Clearness Prestige 14 Clear Sounds well educatedgoodstandardnatural 6 Easy to be understood Goodstandardsounds sure 4 Mix reasons 4 Prestige 4 Sounds well-educated 2 Natural 1 Cool 1 Clearness The use and spread of accent 4 Easy to be understoodclear Familiar 4 Etc 2 Table 1.C.4 20 Table 1.C.3 shows the participants want to learn American accent 84, then British 16. This means all of the participants 100 want to learn native accents. This finding is similar with Siregar‘s study 2010 that show Indonesian EFL students in Maranatha Christian University Bandung have no concern to learn new varieties of English. They are only interested in learning AE and BE that are considered the standardized English. Table 1.C.4 explains the reasons why the participants want to learn certain accent. The highest reason for learning BE accent is prestige 7 out of 16. The second reason is because of clearness 6 out of 16. The next is between prestige and the use the spread of English 2 out of 16, and the last is other reasons 1 out of 16. On the other hand, the reason for wanting to learn AE accent is because of clearness 60 out of 84, followed by the mix of clearness Prestige 14 out of 84, prestige 4 out of 84, the mix of clearness and the use spread of English 4 out of 84, and another reasons 2 out of 84. Table 1.A.1 until table 1.C.3 show a condition where the native accent, especially AE, is always on the first place to have positive attitudes and has very little attributed with negative attitudes. The same finding is also found in Siregar’s study 2010 that her participants have the most positive attitudes to AE in almost all items. On the other hand, BE is almost always at the second places for positive attitudes. But BE gains more much negative attitudes than AE, and if the percentages of positive attitudes toward AE and toward BE are compared, the deviation numbers are quite much. The possible reason of