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EFL STUDENTS’ VIEWS ON THE NEGOTIATION OF THEIR JAVANESE
IDENTITY WHEN USING ENGLISH

Elisa Noventia Prastiwi
ABSTRACT
Though English still remains a foreign language in Indonesia, the competence in it is
needed to compete in globalized world. This fact has caused many Javanese to learn
English and turned them to become Javanese English users as they started to actively
use it in spoken and written forms. However, being Javanese English users might bring
challenges for the Javanese to position themselves as they blend in the society. Indeed,
Javanese English users need to be aware of their multilingual identity and the ways they
negotiate their identity. This study aims particularly to examine the perceptions of eight
students of English Language Education (ELE) program of Universitas Kristen Satya
Wacana, Salatiga on the negotiation of their Javanese identity when using English. The
data were collected using semi-structured interview and analyzed using content
analysis. The results of the interviews were mostly emerged within four themes; two
were adapted from Zacharias (2012) and the other two were adapted from Vasilopoulos
(2015): (1) legitimizing English self through acceptance from NS, (2) backgrounding
Javanese identity to project desirable English language use, (3) strategic language
choice and language use, and (4) natural expression of L2 identity.
Key words: Identity negotiation, English language use, Javanese identity