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Sometimes or usually… the west culture is not good …not proper in our culture.
In the above sample, the speaker uses a changing code in the form of meaning replacement as his communication strategy. When he realizes that the
word “not good” is not the appropriate term to convey her message, the speaker utters “not proper” to complete the sentence.
2.4 English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia
There are a lot of countries all over the world and in each country its people live with their own culture and speak their own language. Chinese
people speak Chinese. Japanese people speak Japanese, and Indonesian people speak Indonesian. Global era gives opportunities to people around the world to
trade and exchange needs. Modern technology also brings overseas information to us. It pushes people to interact with others from around the
world. In doing the interaction one needs to understand the language spoken by the people whom heshe interacts with. It will be very difficult when
someone who does export-import business, for instance, has to do the interactions with many people from different countries who speak different
languages. Obviously we need one language that makes the international interaction easy and simple.
Because English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as a world language. Books, magazines, newspapers written in English are
available in many countries around the world. Based on the use of English around the world, we can divide countries into three categories, they are: a
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English speaking countries, where English is used and spoken by the people as their first language or mother tongue. b Countries where English is used as
the second language, it means the people who live in these countries have their own mother tongue but they also speak English in their society. Malaysia,
India, and Brunei are countries where English is used as the second language. c Countries where English is taught as a foreign language, it means the
people who live in these countries do not speak English in their society. Indonesia is one of these countries.
Indonesian people only learn English in classroom setting and do not speak the language in their society widely. But since English is considered as
the global language, Indonesian people feel they need to learn the language. So, Indonesia has a large number of English learners. People of Indonesia start
to learn English in their childhood; it is because the Indonesian government puts English as one of the subjects in elementary school’s curriculum.
2.5 The Role of Speaking Class for English Department
