THE USE OF ENGLISH AS THE LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION ( A CASE STUDY IN A CROSS CULTURE COMMUNICATION CLASS, ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT, HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY)

In general, it can be concluded that most respondents in this study have positive opinion about the use of english as the language of instruction. This particulary appears in giving presentation and listening to lectures. In contrst, for asking and answering uestion, half of the respondents still have problems due to limited vocabularies and the feeling of anxiety (psychologyical factor). About the policy of using English as the language of instruction. while some students feel happy, some others feel that it would create certain problems.\ud Based on the findings in this study, it is suggested that the implementation of the policy to use English as the language of instruction needs to consider two important factors. The first one is the level of student'English Proficiency, and the second one is the psychologyical factor.One of the impacts of internasionalisation is the increasing use of english. Since a Couple of years ago, there has been an increasing tendency in countries where English has the status as a second or a foreign langage to use English as an Instructional language in different field