Part III The students’ expectations and needs for the development of French learning achievement besides learning and teaching offered by the
4. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 The Most Language Used in Communication
Firstly, the researcher asked the teachers what are they perspectives towards English. In this question, the researcher got various opinions from the teachers’ perspective about English. Especially, how the teachers see English or what is English mean for them ? From the survey through online questionnaire result, most of the teachers thought that English is important to learn because it is part of the international language. Besides, to compete in this globalization era people need to know or even master English. For instance, from the general teachers thought that many articles and books available in English version. So they need to master English to understand those articles and books. It was based on their need to master English. Meanwhile, from the English teachers’
perspective, English could help him/her to follow the international event like students exchange when they were still in college. Also, according to him/her English is also as the lingua franca means the use of the English language as a common means of communication for speakers of different first languages.
Proceeding “The 2nd Inte rnational Se minar on Language and Inte rdisciplinary Rese arch on Language ” 65 In addition, some teachers saw English as a fun language and as the language, they used when they were chatting with their foreign friends through social media. Also, by knowing English, it could help them to get a good job especially in the tourism industry (a tour guide) that really needs someone that could speak in English well. On the other hand, the teacher also thought that English is a difficult language to learn. Most of them thought that how its write and it pronounces were different. That is making English difficult. Meanwhile, Bahasa Indonesia is easy because it is the same both written and pronunciation.
In line with the previous question, the researcher asked teachers opinion about the importance to learn English and used it in their daily conversation.
Based on the result, the participants mostly agree if learning English is important and also use it in daily communication. The participants’ thought that it was not a new thing to realize that English had important role in many aspects especially for teachers. Specifically, if you had good ability in English, it was not difficult for you to apply job, to find the scholarships or to continue your study in advance. But one of the participant said that it could be depends on the situation and the environment. It means that, if she lived with the people used English frequently to communicate then she will use English to interact among others. While, if the environment did not really necessary to communicate using English, then she might be used code switching or just spoke with her mother tongue or first language.
Besides, the researcher also asked about the time teachers usually used English in their daily activities. Based on the data, most of the teachers used English when they were use social media like instagram or facebook to communicate with people abroad. Also, when they attended an international event they automatically tried to use English to communicate even though it was not fluent enough. But at least they know the basic things of English.
Proceeding “The 2nd Inte rnational Se minar on Language and Inte rdisciplinary Rese arch on Language ” 66 Besides, they were also used English when they were sang English songs and wrote caption in their social media. In addition, when they met foreigners automatically they used English to interact with them. Also, when they would like to find out book, articles, and journals related with their major or the study mostly available in English. In conclusion for this question, even though most of the teachers’ thought English was a difficult language to learn but they still push themselves to know the basic things in English so in particular situations they can use English to interact or to communicate because they realize that English is important for them.
In addition, based on the previous questions above, the most language used in communication can be seen in the diagram below:
Figure 1. The most language used by the participants
As seems on the chart above that most of the participants chose first option which was Ambon-Malay. Specifically, it was about 23 participants or 76.67 % from the total of participants. Meanwhile, 4 people were answer Bahasa Indonesia or about 13.33 %. On the other hand, even though no one answer English as the language that they used in their daily activities. It seems normal because most of them were not English teachers. They came from different background educations like physics, mathematics, history, marine and nurse discipline, etc. Surprisingly, the rest 3 people said that they used code switching between Ambon-Malay to English or Bahasa Indonesia to English to
Proceeding “The 2nd Inte rnational Se minar on Language and Inte rdisciplinary Rese arch on Language ” 67 communicate in daily conversation depends on the situation and person they are talking with.
4.2 The Concept on The Role of English in Daily Conversation and