Digital Natives' English Language and Culture Conceptualization

Abstract

Jakarta as metropolitan has been the central of global flows in Indonesia consisting of ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, ideoscapes and linguascapes. Due to advance technology and digital media, the flows are even more rapid which causes intense human contact across boundaries. In related with English language and culture classroom in Jakarta, the teachers and students are within such disruptive era which transform the conceptualization of English users in globalization. This study was able to define the conceptualization of English user among digital native students and teachers from three selected English Departments at three different universities in Jakarta through questionnaire and semi-structured interview. For the participants, to be English users in globalization one should frequently use the language as part of digital lifestyle and to access technology in order to be part of virtual community with transnational affiliation in imagine community.