Proceeding of the First ELTiC Conference

Abstract

Multicultural society is natural phenomena in our life. Most of society has its own language.To integrate the society community, it is needed to use a universal language to make all thespeakers around the level of society understand well the issues of discussion whether in local,regional, national or International community. In the local society, language speakers usedtheir own language to communicate among of them, language speakers of regional levelmostly used their own dialect to run the communication smoothly. National language usuallyused by the language speakers to unity the societies in thus nation, for example, BahasaIndonesia is used nationally in Indonesia among of the speakers from different Inlands. Eventhey have their own dialect, or local language, Indonesian language speakers are able tospeak Bahasa Indonesia. Internationally, people speak English as a mean of communication.Further, now we are in the era of ASEAN Economic Community. The question is? What is alanguage officially used in ASEAN community to run any activities such as, culture,education, economic, politic, etc.? The writer assumes that English mostly used by anypeople from ASEAN countries, particularly in the formal context.