This research analyses the members of the English speech community at
Faculty of Letters Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto. The members include all
of the lecturers and the students of the Faculty of Letters. However, the lecturers
are merely the tutors or the supervisors of the English speech community.
Meanwhile, the students are the ones who learn English through the English speech
community. The purposes of this research are to describe the Language Attitude of
the English speech community members at Faculty of Letters Universitas
Muhammadiyah Purwokerto towards English language as well as to elaborate the
factors that influence the Language Attitude.
The method of this research is mixed methodology which covers the
qualitative and quantitative method as well. Here, it uses the method of
quantitative data in collecting and analyzing the data of the research. Later, the
results of the data will be described based on the qualitative method. The
instruments of collecting data are through the questionnaire, the interview and the
observation. The respondents cover all students of the Faculty of Letters from the
1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th semester students. Also, some interviews are given to a group of
students randomly. For the observation, it is done by the researcher around the area
of Faculty of Letters in terms of completing the data in determining the language
attitude of the English speech community members.
In the end, the results show that the members of English speech community
show a positive attitude towards the English language. Also, this occurs for the three
aspects of the language attitude. The results show 100% positive for each of the
aspect that covers Affective, Behavioral and Cognitive aspect. Some factors that
influence the language attitude also described in this research. It reveals the factors
dealing with personal experience, emotional feelings or ego and the environment of
the surroundings.