NEGATIVE LANGUAGE ATTITUDE OF ACEH YOUTHS TOWARD THEIR LANGUAGES

   A. Definition of Language Attitude

Language attitude is the attitude of the person toward one’s own language or toward speaker of different languages. This attitude can be seen from his or her expression of positive or negative feeling toward the languages. This  attitude can also reflect in imressions linguistics difficulty or simplicity, the degree of important, elegans, and social status. The attitude toward a language may also show what people feel about the speakers of that language .

B.     Types of  Language Attitude

Language attitude divided into two. They are positive and negative language attitude. Positive language attitude means that someone love one language,use the language ,want other people to learn or speak the language,want to be associated to the language, ensure that your next generation use the language,etc. On other hand, negative language attitude means someone do not like the language, do not want to learn the language, etc.

C.     Negative Language Attitude of Aceh Youths toward Their language.

A group in a society usually distinguishes it self by its language and its cultural norms and values are transmitted through language. The identity and pride in a culture of a group is expressed through its language. But it is not happen to Aceh youth, most of them do not love their language. Why I can said like this, it because most teenagers of Aceh do not speak Acehnese. They speak Indonesian to their family, friends, teacher, etc. There are some reasons that make them do not speak Acehnese. First,they feel embarest to speak Acehnese to their friends because they feel that Acehnese language is dated. Next, some of children is not speak Acehnese because their parents do not teach them their language since they are baby. Many parents wish their children use the national language or international language like English. They do not want their children speak the local language. Therefore,the children can not speak their own language. The environtment also influence the children attitude toward their own language. If the children life in the environment which use the Acehnese language in daily, they will use it too. On other hand if they life in the environment which do not use the Acehnese language, they will not use that language. In conclusion,there are three reasons that make Aceh youth  have negative attitude toward their language.