Whorfyan Sociolinguistics in ELT
Group LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT AND ITS MAINTENANCE
INTRODUCTION
Language endangerment:
Language endangerment means when a language is
almost extinct and there is no transmission for that
language to the younger generation to use. (Woodburry,
1992, and Krauss, 2007)
Language maintenance:
When language continue to be spoken (Wardhaugh,
2015). Language can be maintained through several
important domains such as family, friends, neighbors,
community, religion, education, and the media.
(Fishman, 1991)
It is important to maintain
the endangered language:
Maintaining the language is done to strengthen our
cultural identity and family ties, the mastery of the first
language influences the ability of second language
acquisition (e.g. English), and to broaden our horizons.
(Gabriel, 2016)
Authentic example:
There is “Bahasa dan Sastra Sunda” as one of the "local
content” course in Junior High School 2 Tasikmalaya,
West Java, Indonesia.
Lecturer: Nanak Hikmatullah, M. Sc.
Asri Ainun Nisa| Maya Asrysa Paramudita | Risma Fuji Hadiyanti | Rohimatul Khiyaroh | Wanti Amelia
ANALYSIS OF EXAMPLE REFERENCES
Methodology: Rationale: Result and discussion: Fishman, J. (1996). Maintaining Languages:
Giles' accommodation theory We use "language and Fewer speakers of the language without any What Works? What Doesn't? Conclusion.
concerned with interactive identity" approach because transmission to the young generation, may no
longer be used at all or die. In accommodation Fishman, J., (1991). Reversing language
behavioral events and rests one of the important things in
theory, the style of the speaker's speaking can be shift: Theoretical and empirical foundations
on a definition of an ethnic language maintenance is the
changed by who they are interacting with, for of assistance to threatened languages,
group "those individual who role of education. Implicitly
different context or motivation and expectation in Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
perceive as themselves to needed to extract the role of
interaction. We converge when we want to
belong to the same ethnic education to promote critical Gabriel, J. (2016). Three reasons you should
connect with someone and diverge when we are
category" (Giles, 1979). It language awareness in school. love your native language. Retrieved from:
trying to make a distance to someone.
suggests that how speakers Le Page (1993) state that the Gengo: https://gengo.com/language-and-
The implication of maintaining language
changed the way they spoke implication of a "language endangerment in the role of the educational culture/three-reasons-you-should-love-your-
according to the person they and identity' approach to system, it must be aware of the critical language native-language/ (Online) 21-05-2020
were talking to. A speaker language maintenance, awareness in schools by incorporating activities
may converge or diverge particularly for the role of the to develop the learners' awareness of the Krauss M. E. (2007). "Keynote-Mass
along several dimensions. education system. language and social identity as well. Language Extinction and Documentation:
The Race Against Time". In Miyaoka et al.,
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CONCLUSION [Pedagogical Implication]
TABOURET -KELLER, ANDREE.
As teacher: "Language and Identity." The Handbook of
As student:
Sociolinguistics. Coulmas, Florian (ed).
1. Use the indigenous language as the medium 1. Use their indigenous language in classroom Blackwell Publishing, 1998. Blackwell
of classroom instruction, activities, Reference Online. 28 December 2007
2. Make the instruction of a project with the 2. Have the awareness of preservation of indigenous http://www.blackwellreference.com/subcrib
use of indigenous language. language. er/tocnode? idag978063121193821
Wider context: Woodburry, A.C. (1992). Endangered
Language?. Washington, DC: Linguistic
1. Developing an archival collection through recording the spoken language before it is lost entirely, Society of America.
2. Empowering the indigenous language through technology.
English Education Programme of Siliwangi University
2020