THE 2 nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND LINGUISTICS ON LANGUAGE TEACHING (I-COLLATE) 182 Oct 20-21,2017 DIALECT PREJUDICE: LANGUAGE ATTITUDE OF ENGLISH TEACHERS TOWARD LOCAL DIALECT OF SPOKEN ENGLISH IN EFL CLASS Udiana Puspa Dewi 1 and Abdul Aziz Turhan Kariko 2 Bina Nusantara University udewi@binus.edu 1 and azizcomi84@gmail.com 2 Abstract This paper focuses on the analysis of dialect prejudice in EFL class. The observation is done by exploring the perception that English teachers hold toward Standard English and their attitude toward local dialect of spoken English in EFL class. This research is intended to be a pilot study to observe dialect prejudice in small scale. The data are collected through questionnaires which are distributed to the English teachers in Solo to explore their language attitude and perception. Solo is considered as a precise location to carry out a pilot study observation about local dialects of Spoken English in EFL class. The thick Javanese dialect possessed by most of teachers and students in the city will be a prominent observational tool to explore the existence of dialect prejudice in EFL class. Keywords: dialect prejudice, language attitude, EFL INTRODUCTION English has become a world language which is utilized in various aspect of international relations, tourism, global media, science, technology, and education 1 . English is learned by over 150 million children in primary or secondary schools as a foreign language worldwide as a compulsory or a preferred optional language in most countries 2,3 . The teaching of English in non English spoken countries has raised several issues. In several cases, children who live in multilingual society experience a mismatch between the language spoken at home and the language used at school 4 . The dialect and other language varieties related to social class, gender, or ethnicity are often put aside in the process of language learning in school. Trudgill have made it clear that focusing on the standard language in education is almost certain to fail, and may lead to the loss of self-esteem and self-confidence by speakers of nonstandard varieties 5 . In most of cases, many English teachers do not realize. For that reason, the examination of language attitude of English teachers toward the use of local dialects of English Speaking in EFL class is described in this paper. The negative attitude toward local dialect of English is considered as an indicator of dialect prejudice. The observation focuses on the language attitude relates to the way specific attitudes and/or beliefs toward language are implemented. The implementation, in this case, is in the process of language learning in EFL class. Therefore, this paper emphasizes the observation of the attitude of English Teachers in several schools in Solo, Central Java, to see whether or not prejudice toward local dialect exists in EFL class. Solo is considered as a precise location to carry out a case study observation about local dialects of English Speaking in EFL class. The