Language
attitude shows someone’s mental and behavior in the way they use language. A student who
already had an provision of language learning must have an attitude in language
as a form of pride and love of having Indonesian language. A positive characteristic of language attitude is having loyalty, pride,
and awareness of language norms.
The problems on
this research is (1) how is the 8th grade students of SMPN 4
Mojokerto loyalty towards Indonesian language, (2) how is the 8th
grade students of SMPN 4 Mojokerto pride towards Indonesian language, and (3)
how is the 8th grade students of SMPN 4 Mojokerto awareness of
language norms towards Indonesian language. This research aims to describe the
loyalty, pride, and awareness of language norms possessed by the 8th
grade students of SMPN 4 Mojokerto.
This
research design is quantitative descriptive with suevey metohd. The population of this research is the 8th grade students of
SMPN 4 Mojokerto with a sampling as much as 20% of the total population. The used
questionnarire and interview as instrument.
The result of
this research is the attitude of language loyalty possesed by students included
in the negative category with a percentage of 42%, while the results of the
attitude of language pride possessed by students included in the positive
category with a percentage of 49%, and the results of the awareness of language
possessed by students included in the positive category with a percentage of
55%.
Keyword : Language attitude,
Loyalty, Pride, Awareness