Background of the Study

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Bali is one of worldwide famous tourism destinations known as the Island of Gods and Thousand Temples. Bali has many unique traditions and cultures, also has its beautiful views like mountains, mounts, beaches, bays, capes, lakes in it which make many tourists from all over the world love to visit Bali. Since Bali will be visited by many tourists from various countries, means that Balinese people will get involved in tourism activities, therefore they need the language as a tool to interact and serve them. English is the international language of the world, which is used by every people when they have interactions with foreigners. It is important to learn English, especially the native people in tourism area since not only they can interact with more people from the other countries, but also get some advantages within, like becoming a trader, freelance guide, or even selling handicrafts as a merchant. Balinese people, especially the people who natively from tourism area either will learn it or force themselves to do an interaction with foreigners, for example in tourism area Ubud, there are some native people who become a silversmith, selling their handicrafts to gain some profits, there they have to do interactions to sell their goods by using English. In actuality, English has so many complex aspects within it, for example English Phonology, Grammar, Vocabulary. However, those aspects will only be effectively used in either formal or important activities. It is different to the language which is used by silver shop attendants in Ubud, not depending on Grammar, much more easily be used, however, still can be understood either by the tourists or customers. This English structure phenomenon is usually called pidginized English. Todd in Wardhaugh, 1986:74 proposes that people know the vocabularies of different languages but is a kind of common grammar in speaking so that when they come across a new language they employ the ‘new’ vocabulary on the ‘old’ grammatical framework and manage to make themselves understood. This language is important to know because it is existed in our society especially tourism industry. Also, what more interesting is how they the pidgin user express the sentence structures like choosing the right dictions and pronouncing the right pronunciations.

1.2 Problems