LANGUAGE ATTITUDES AMONG COLLEGE-STUDENTS TOWARD ENGLISH IN STAI-JM TANJUNG PURA

This study deals with language attitudes among college-students toward English in STAI-JM Tanjung Pura. It was aimed to investigate the types of the attitudes among the college-students, the levels of attitudes by the college-students at STAI-JM Tanjung Pura towards English realized and the reason or the factors why do they have the attitude such the way it is. This study used descriptive qualitative method then the design was descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this the college-students from Islamic for Economy Majority (Ekonomi Islam) for second semester in STA-JM Tanjung Pura. The object of this study were the language attitudes of the college-students in STAI-JM Tanjung Pura towards English. The data were analyzed by using the Interactive Model by Miles, Huberman and Saldana. Based on the data analysis, the college-students in STAI-JM Tanjung Pura showed positive attitudes towards English. Then The college-students have positive attitude towards English in the level of receiving, valuing, and organizing values. On the other hand the college-students have negative attitude towards English in the level of responding and internalizing values. The college-students have positive attitude towards English because of some reasons such as: they are proud of speaking in English and they aware of language norms. But on the other hand they are not loyal to use English.