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2.2 Data The research was done by using quantitative method which the data were collected from giving questionnaire to thirty-three Binus students as the data collection. The data was analyzed by calculating the percentage of participants’ opinions about the factors that influence them to choose a language in a certain situation and interprate the result.

2.3 Result and Interpretation

From the questionnaire collected, the writer got the data as below : Figure 2.1

Figure 2.1 shows that 6.1% of the respondents are monolingual, 57.6% are bilingual, 24.2% speak 3 languages (trilingual), and 12.1% speak more that 3 languages (polygot).

Figure 2.2

Figure 2.2 shows that the participants speak local language as their first language 21.2%, Bahasa

Figure 2.4

Figure 2.4 shows that none of the participants use bahasa Indonesia as their third language, 25% of the participants use English as their third language, 31% use other language as third language, and 44% of the participants only speak 2 languages which mean they do not have the third language.

No Factors that support the choice of the languages Local language Bahasa Indonesia English Other language

1 Family plays important role in using… 18 (participants) 12 (participants) 1

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2 Social interaction strengthen the use of… 3 21 9 0

3 Religion strengthen the use of… 1 24 1 5

4 Work requires using… 1 13 16 1

5 National identity is expressed in… 1 31 0 0

6 Ethnic identity is expressed in… 15 13 2 0

7 University education is in… 1 7 24 0

8 Watching tv / listening to music in… 1 3 26 1

9 Professional networking sites are in… 0 7 25 0

10 Personal social media is in… 2 6 23 1

Figure 2.5

Figure 2.5 / table above shows the factors that support the choice of local language, bahasa Indonesia, English and other languages. From the data above, the writer made conclusion that

6 3 10 12

Figure 2.6

Figure / table 2.6 above shows the opinion / attitudes of the participants toward local language, bahasa Indonesia, English, and other languanges. It represents :

- As the participants live in Indonesia, thus they use bahasa Indonesia the most

- Half of the participants claimed English as the most beautiful language among the others, while 5 believe that local language, 7 tought bahasa Indonesia, and 4 agreed that other languages are the most beautiful languages

- 65% agreed that English as the most prestigious language among all

- The majority (81%) stated that Bahasa Indonesia could be used to show national identity as Indonesian

- 44% viewed local language as the language that connected to their ethnic heritage, while 41% saw bahasa Indonesia and 11% considered other languages as their ethnic heritage

- Half maintained that bahasa Indonesia is the most useful language and the other half claimed that English can be used in all situation

- 44% assumed that local language is the least important, 19% asserted bahasa Indonesia as the least important, 27% stated that English is not important, and 3% viewed other language is least