The method used is qualitative, collecting data through interviews by asking questions that have been prepared in advance. The interview was conducted on Tuesday, October 08, 2024, by interviewing an Indonesian Language Teacher. The results of the interview will be summarized into points according to the results of the interviewee's answers that have a relationship with the topic.
The following are the points from the interview regarding the Teacher's Role in Maintaining Home Language while Developing School Language:
A. The importance of home language and school language in students' development
With 14 years of experience, the informant gave an opinion on the importance of using home language and school language for student development. The informant said: "In our school, students use a lot of home language, and for school language students only use it in the classroom".Â
The importance for student development in terms of language, namely Indonesian (school language), which will greatly help the use of Indonesian when they will continue to the next level, especially in the world of education. Likewise, home language is very important for students in interacting with people close to them in the environment they live in.
B. The use of language used by students in the school environment.
In the school environment, students will use the school language if they are dealing or interacting with the teacher, but only a few and students will more often be heard using the home language. In creating a classroom atmosphere, in addition to using the school language, teachers sometimes provide space for students to explain material or discuss using their home language.
C. How teachers get students' attention in the classroom.
"I use my home language the most in class, because many students are not interested in presenting material in Indonesian." In attracting students' attention, the teacher often uses the home language to provoke them to discuss with the teacher, because the students themselves are said to be less interested in hearing the material if it is delivered in Indonesian, but this does not make the teacher give up on giving directions to students in using good Indonesian.
D. The challenges teachers face in introducing the school language while maintaining the home language.
The number of students who use the home language more often, makes the teacher have to train them little by little the school language. The impact will be that the final results will not be balanced, because many students use more home language and less school language. But the teacher still provides training for students by answering questions and giving explanations using Indonesian.
