Attitudes and Behavior of Indonesian Language and Literatur Education Study Program Students of Universities in Makassar Towards Indonesian language

This research applied a mixed methods design aiming to explore, describe and explain attitudes and behavior of Indonesian language and literature education study program students of universities in Makassar towards Indonesian language. The data on language attitudes and behavior was collected using a test technique in the form of questionnaires for attitudes and covert behavior, and a non-test technique taken from recording, notes and interviews for overt language behavior of the students. The results of the research reveal that although the attitudes of Indonesian language and literature education study program students at Universities in Makassar towards the standard Indonesian language is in very positive category, their awareness of the Indonesian language norms is the data with the lowest quantification result of 81.67%. Covert behavior as a representation of mental activity (cognitive activity) is in high category; 24 (twenty four) respondents are in high group category with score interval between 39 and 42. However, the overt behavior of the respondents in communicating in official situations reflects the identity of the respondents as bilingual and/or multilingual speakers, that the respondents experience disturbance in the form of dialect usage, phonological interference, morphological interference, syntax interference, interjection of vexation, interjection of invitation, interjection of call, and particle usage.