INTERFERENCE OF THE STUDENTS’ INDONESIAN LANGUAGE IN DELIVERING ENGLISH PRESENTATION

Abstract: This research examines the types, dominant types and causes of Indonesian language interference from 5 presenters in delivering English presentation. It employs a mix-method approach to collect data by using video recording and oral interviewing, the qualitative data was collected and analyzed first by using the interactive model of Miles and Huberman (2014 then tabulated and dropped into percentage by using the formula P=F/N x 100% (Gay, Geoffrey, & A., 2006). Collecting data was carried out from early until Mid-February 2018 at Graduate Program State University of Makassar focus on students of English Department who presented proposal and result of the research. The selected subjects were the presenters which have language interference as an area of this research and they used most of Indonesian language in their daily life and interaction. Result of the research demonstrates that interference occur here dominated by grammatical interference, then lexical and phonological. The limit of vocabulary, disloyalty to target language, sequential bilingualism, presenters’ feeling and students’ assumption generated a variety of interference. Keywords: Interference, Indonesian Language, English Presentation