EFL Lecturers’ Attitude towards Local Accented English at IAIN Curup

Nurhakiki, Nurhakiki and Gusmuliana, Paidi and Prihantoro, Prihantoro (2022) EFL Lecturers’ Attitude towards Local Accented English at IAIN Curup. Sarjana thesis, IAIN Curup.

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This study investigates how the attitude of English lecturers at IAIN towards the local accented those students when they speak in English. This study aims to determine the attitude of lecturers in 3 dimensions affective, cognitive, and behavioral towards local accents. The researcher used mixed methods. The kind of mixed-method a concurrent embedded model. The subject of this research is 16 lecturers for the questionnaire and 6 lecturers for the interview. The research instruments were questionnaires and interviews. The results showed that all lecturers had attitudes towards local accents as follows: First, from the affective dimension, English lecturers at IAIN Curup did not question the local accents that students had as long as the pronunciation was clear and must comply with phonological rules. Furthermore, on the cognitive dimension, according to the lecturer, the local accent is not something wrong, it shows a person's identity and culture if the pronunciation is correct and does not change the message to be conveyed. And lastly, on the behavioral dimension, researchers can carefully observe the actions of lecturers when there are students whose pronunciation is wrong and changes the meaning too far, they will be given direct action and immediately correct it. The finding revealed that the attitude of the English lecturer at IAIN Curup towards the local accents that students have is a positive attitude from the affective, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions. Keywords: Attitude, Local Accent, English Foreign Language

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