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The use of English seldom make students have a bad ability to speak and comprehend English as their teacher wants. It caused the students can not understand what their teacher has explained because they just have little vocabulary in English. Besides, the text in the students' book used foreign narratives, and foreign activities so that the students can not understand and comprehend the context of the book itself. Because of the condition, the teacher needs to approach to inform their students about English itself. That is why the sociolinguistic approach is needed in that condition because it can make students understand and comprehend easily the context of their English book. Therefore, this study is the gap to know teachers' perspectives on the use of the sociolinguistic approach in ELT and hindering that the teachers found in the implementation sociolinguistic approach. This study used descriptive qualitative research with 26 participants of English teachers. The findings of this study showed that sociolinguistics gave positive perspectives and benefits to the students.
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Da Costa & Arias .(2021). Sociolinguistics Approaches in EFL Teaching Methods for Dominican College Students. Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
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Guoxing, Y. (2004). Perception, practice, and progress: Significance of scaffolding and zone of proximal development for second or foreign language teachers. Asian EFL Journal, 6(4),24.
Holmes, J. (2001). An introduction to sociolinguistics (2nd ed.). London: Longman.
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Hudson, R. A. (1996). Sociolinguistics. Cambridge [England: Cambridge University Press. Chicago (Author-Date, 15th ed.)
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Maryam, 2006. Contrastive Pragmatic Study and Teaching Culture in English Language Classroom. University Sains Malaysia
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Richards, J.C.(1985). The Context of Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Savignon, S. J. (2002). Communicative Language Teaching: Linguistic Theory And Classroom Practice (Chp 1). Interpreting Communicative Language Teaching: Contexts And Concerns In Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263104251051
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Street, B., & Leung, C. (2010). Sociolinguistics, Language Teaching And New Literacy Studies. In Sociolinguistics And Language Education. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847692849-013
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