THE CORRELATION BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE AND STUDENTS’ BELIEF ON THE USE OF NON-NATIVE ENGLISH

The use of English has been spread to the extent that its objective does not concern achieving a native-like competence but achieving an understanding interaction. As the change of the use of English in the international context, the beliefs on English roles in the world itself also possibly change over time. This current research is conducted to investigate the relationship between international exposure and students’ belief on the use of non-native English in the classroom. This study involved 30 students who had already finished their international exchange program to explore whether their beliefs would remain or change after they returned from their internship. Questionnaires and interviews were carried out through survey research to answer the research problem. Based on the result in the current study, there is a significant relationship between international exposure and the students’ belief on the use of non-native English. This study also discovered the students’ acceptance of non-standard English in the communication context while remaining holding to give more value in the native-English norm. Additionally, this research has shed light on the use of non-native English in the classroom since the students with high consciousness of self-identity are more concerned about introducing non-standard English in their teaching practice