The emerging use of English in many fields have spread to all over the world. Contact between languages
is then unavoidable. In Lombok, it can be witnessed three ways of how English has spread to the society,
formal and informal learning, and non-formal acquisition. This study begins with a prior study finding the
various attributes of Sasak and Indonesian languages that occurred in an English language class. The
primary focus of the study is tracing the conceptualization of Sasak people in the English of learners, or
thought in this study. The term conceptualization is taken from the emerging notion suggested by Farzad
Sharifian (2007, 2015) to describe various concepts that exist and live within certain community. In this
respect, this study conducts classroom observation to record the gamut of interaction and, therefore, is used
to trace the concepts originated from Sasak community. Regarding the two focus of the study is concept
and its manifestation in the language of the people, this study also uses the approach suggested by Hakan
Ringborn (2007), i.e. cross-linguistic study, to enable the investigation of cross-similarities between the
two languages. All data in recorded in observation sheets are then reduced, displayed, and used to draw
conclusion, as suggested by Miles and Huberman (2004)
