LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE BY JAVANESE FAMILIES IN DESA SAMBIREJO TIMUR

This study deals with language maintenance by Javanese families. It employs qualitative
research design with case study. This study aims to find out: (1) the dominant factor affect f
Javanese families language maintenance in Desa Sambirejo Timur, (2) the strategies used by
Javanese families to maintain their ethnic language, and (3) the reason Javanese families
maintained their language. The subjects were ten Javanese families including parents (the
third generation) and children in Desa Sambirejo Timur. The instruments used for this study
were observation and interview (in-depth interview). The observation was applied to get the
data about the factor affect Javanese families’ language maintenance. The interview was
applied to find the dominant factor affect language maintenance by Javanese families. The
data was analyzed by using interactive model from Miles and Huberman’s. There are five
factors being analyzed, namely: (1) attitude towards Javanese language, (2) value, (3)
identity, (4) demography, and social factor. The dominant factor affect Javanese lang8uage
maintenance in this study is the attitude towards language. Besides that there is one additional
factor found during research namely visiting homeland. The strategy used by parents to
maintained Javanese language in their family are: (1) raising Javanese language interest for
children by direct them to arts, culture and literature about Javanese such as wayang,
Javanese radio broadcasting, and Javanese song and (2) mix Javanese language with
Indonesian when speaking to the children