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AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING DEPARTMENT
STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES TOWARD ENGLISH

THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan

Ruth Alvina Widodo
112008025

ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2014

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An Analysis of English Language Teaching Department Students’
Perspective toward English
Ruth Alvina Widodo

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.
Key words : English perspectives, global language, additional language, foreign
language.