Maintenance of mother tongue:

Patterns of Language Choice at the Malaysian -Thai Border

No

Rantau Panjang and Golok is a place for tourism

destination and it is located at Malaysia-Thai border. This
place is very popular because both of them are shopping
1. Background of study destination and having duty free status. The tourist is not
only from Malaysia but also from Thailand. So, the writer
interested to conduct the study of the language choices
that the tourists used in those places.

2. Research Question How is the language choices of the speakers at Rantau

Panjang and Golok.

a. (Holmes, 2001)
The social factor of language choice are who one
is talking to, the context of the talk or
3. Literature Theory conversation, the function & the
conversation/discussion/talk.
b. (Altehanger, Smith, 1987, Boibely, 2000 )
All societies often include more than 2 languages.
c. (Fasold, 1984, Miltoy, 1980)
A typical study on language choice would involve
typical participants in typical setting.
 Maintenance of mother tongue:
Patterns of Language Choice at the Malaysian -Thai Border

a. Participant
4. Methodology 202 Respondent representing the speech
communities from Rantau Panjang & Golok
b. Research Design.
Qualitative Research & Descriptive Research
c. Instruments
Questionnaires
d. Data Collecting
Interview & Observation
e. Data Analysis
The patterns of language choice are analysed
statistically, during the second stage of the
study, several interviews were conducted with
the informants to clarify certain information
regarding their choice of language in the
domains identified.

NAME: 1. FILOSOFIA N H (1610302124)

2. ASIH KURNIASTUTI (1610302108)

3. BAGUS KURNIAWAN (1610302118)