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Indonesian EFL Students’ Attitudes toward Various English Accents
Monika Dharma
Abstract
Some scholars (e.g. Kachru, 1985; Jenkins, 2000, 2006; Kirkpatrick 2006, 2007;
McKay, 2002) has criticized monocentric view (Quirk, 1985, 1990) and promoted
World Englishes, but English learners from Japan, Korea and Chinese still hold the
monocentric view (Li, 2009; Jung, 2010; Mei 2011). However not all countries have
same perspective. Learners from South Africa, Pakistan, and India hold their country
English accent (Timmis, 2002). This study is a quantitative study that investigates
Indonesian EFL students’ attitudes toward various accents, which are British English
(BE), American English (AE), Malaysian English (ME), Indian English (IE), and
Japanese English (JE). There are three sub topics: (1) Indonesian EFL students’
cognitive, affective, and behavioral toward various English accents; (2) opinions about
the importance of using native accent(s); (3) opinions about own accent. Questionnaires
written in Bahasa Indonesia were distributed to 100 students of English Department
Satya Wacana Christian University Salatiga. The results show (1) native accents
receive much more positive attitudes, and non-native accents receive much more
negative attitudes; (2) more than half participants state using native accent(s) is not
important; (3) the most of participants claimed their accent is non native, but they have
positive opinions toward their accent, and positive feelings when they use their accent.
Keyword: Native accent(s), Non-native accent(s), Attitude(s), Monocentric view,

Pluricentric view, World Englishses.