Volume No ISSN : 4 : 1 : 2985-7643 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ICONELT International Conference on English Language Teaching (4 th ICONELT 2024) THE ACCULTURATION STRATEGY PREFERENCE OF LONDO KAMPUNG’S FAMILY DEPICTED FROM LANGUAGE CHOICE Farah Anjanillah Language Development Center of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya farahanjanillah.pusbas.uinsa@gmail.com Abstract: The grand theme of transnational migration has been intriguing to be discussed in the sociolinguistics field, taking into account that a dispersion possibly creates a dilemma among diaspora to adjust their culture and language in the host land in order to coexist. Thus, the researcher of this study investigated the acculturation strategy preference of Londo kampung’s family as an Australian diaspora to stay in Surabaya, Indonesia, depicted from their language choices. Using a qualitative case study design, the data of this study were gathered from a YouTube channel named Londokampung. The results exhibit that the family members of Londo kampung favor to implement an integration strategy indicated through the use of English in the family domain to maintain their identities. Moreover, this strategy is also signaled through the use of the host society’s languages in the friendship domain. As a way to blend with the host society, Londo kampung’s parents are able to speak Indonesian language, meanwhile Londo kampung could speak both Javanese and Indonesian language. Conversing about the factors of language choice, the researcher concludes that the language choice of Londo kampung’s family members are controlled by several factors comprising the participant, group membership, social distance, status relationship, setting, formality degree, the linguistic repertoire similarity, and third person presence or non-participating audience. To wrap it up, the integration strategy and opted by Londo kampung’s family leads to the attainment of bilingualism and multilingualism benefits such as positive intercultural relation as well as career success in the host country. Keywords: diaspora, acculturation strategies, language choice 1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, a number of sociolinguists have been putting myriad proliferating interests on the transnational migration theme considering that the diaspora might experience a tension for attuning their own language and culture with the host society to reach a life coexistence (Blommaert, 2010). Therefore, it corresponds with the core sociolinguistics concept taking into account that a situational context plays a role in controlling the relationship of society and language (Wijana & Rohmadi, 2013). Numerous previous studies have been conducted in relation to transnational dispersion topics, for instance the acculturation strategies of diaspora (Yu & Wang, 2011). Besides, Pujiastuti (2007), Muslim (2015), Kroon & Kurvers (2019), Lubińska (2020), Nasution & Ayuningtias (2020) investigated the language choices of diaspora. Ultimately, Noviani (2019) as well as Yusuf & Sudarmanti (2021) explored the identities negotiation of diaspora YouTubers. Nonetheless, there is an absence of a study discussing the interlinkage of the language choice and acculturation strategy preference of diaspora in the host land. That is why, the present research incorporates the diaspora’s language choice and acculturation strategy preference as a means to complete the existing studies’ gap. It should be noted that the distinct language and culture in the host environment might be responded differently by each diaspora. It is relevant with the theoretical framework of Berry (1992) explaining that there are two issues which are possibly encountered by the diaspora in a new milieu including 1. cultural maintenance, 2. contact and participation. The cultural maintenance refers to whether or not the diaspora is willing to preserve their own identities, language(s) and cultures (Berry, 1997). Regarding the contact and participation, it is related to whether or not the diaspora shows an enthusiasm to learn he host society’s language(s) and cultures or to participate to the activities in the host land as a way to engage with the host Copyright © 2024, the Authors. Published by The English Language Education Department This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ) 657