Abstract:
This research deals with the study of language attitude and language
choice among Minangkabau Teenager. The objective of the research was to
investigate the realization of language attitude by Minangkabau teenagers in
Lingkungan 16 Pekan Labuhan and it also to find language choice used by
teenagers Minangkabau in Lingkungan 16 Pekan Labuhan. The research is kind
of field research descriptive qualitative research was applied to analyzed the
data. There were 40 teenagers taken as respondents in this research. The data in
this research was taken from questionnaires consist 19 questions which are 9
question lead to language attitude and 10 questions lead to language choice. The
result of the data found that the language attitude was negative attitudes.
Minangkabau teenagers do not master the language of origin, consider parental
language not important and Minangkabau teenagers also considers Indonesian to
be sufficient as a symbol of regionalism. Minangkabau teenagers also choose
Bahasa Indonesia in daily conversation with family and friends. When their
meet fellow same ethnic outside their homes they were also used Bahasa
Indonesia, because they consider Indonesian to feel more familiar and more
beautiful than Indonesian
