The students ’ language attitudes towards lecturers’ code mixing: An SFL study

As the effort to have the insight into the existing status of a local language in

Indonesia, especially in the academic setting viewed as the respected discourse,

this current study aims to delineate the attitudes of millennial students towards

lecturers’ code mixing to Sundanese during courses. 42 responses reflecting

respondents’ perspectives towards the issue were collected via a qualitative

questionnaire. To reveal the view of participants on the issue under the context of

higher education, responses in the forms of 62 clauses were analysed by the

transitivity framework of Halliday and Matthiessen. The findings of this SFL study

shows that lecturers’ code mixing to Sundanese during courses were viewed by

74% of Sundanese and non-Sundanese participants in positive ways while the rest

addressed it with negative attitudes. The positive attitudes were respectively

represented in material, mental, relational, and existential processes while the

negative attitudes were constructed sequentially in relational, material and mental,

verbal, and existential clauses. The main reasons in the positive attitudes as

revealed by the transitivity analysis are associated with the need to maintain and

preserve local language especially Sundanese via the academic channel.

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