Linguistic landscape as language learning media in SMA Unggulan BPPT Al-Fattah

This study represents the linguistic landscape (LL) in SMA Unggulan BPPT Al-Fattah. This study mainly focuses on the languages being learned and displayed in the sign precisely the LL role that is purposed as pedagogic tool and student’s attitude toward the existence of LL as pedagogical tools. The data in this thesis were collected from the signs at SMA Unggulan BPPT Al-Fattah by observation and interviews the informants. The theoretical frameworks used in this thesis are Bourhis’s theory which provides LL definition and LL function, Gorter and Cenoz’s theory for linguistic landscape as pedagogical tools, Ellis’s 1985 theory for student’s attitude. In this analysis, the researcher utilized descriptive-qualitative in collecting the data, then classifying the data, analyzing the data, and interpreting the data. The data analysis shows that the languages displayed at SMA Unggulan BPPT Al-Fattah are English, Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, and Indonesia. The result shows that the languages mostly used at this school is bahasa Indonesia as official language that takes 58% of languages used and followed by English for about 21% . The using Arabic at the sign take the third position for about 13% languages used and the last followed by Mandarin and Japanese for about 4% which both of the languages are the least used in the sign. Besides, the purpose of LL exists at this school is as pedagogical tool at SMA Unggulan BPPT Al-Fattah which are found that the pedagogical role of LL at this school among others as decoration, raising awareness of the language, collective events, classroom management, and teaching values. In addition the existence of LL at this school also purposed as SLA media that is expected to give the language exposure toward the students. Besides, from the student’s interview result shows that all students accepted the existence of foreign languages at their school. The students also admitted that they get the motivation and moral values implied in the sign. The students at this school admitted that linguistic landscape around the school increase their vocabulary toward the target language. Moreover, the student’s interview result shows most of them aware the function of linguistic landscape as pedagogical tool at the school.