English Department Students of Undip whose parents are Javanese have been exposed to at least three
languages namely Javanese, Indonesian, and English. Some of them are learning other foreign languages
such as Korean, Japanese, and French. As a local language, Javanese has a certain position in its users. The
position can be influenced by its users’ attitudes towards the language. I will show the students’ attitudes
towards Javanese and their roles in maintaining Javanese language. I used questionnaires, DCT (Discourse
Completion Tasks), non-participant observation, and interview to present the data. To analyze them, I used
inferential, distributional, and translational methods. The result indicates that the English Department
Students of Undip have positive attitudes towards Javanese and its maintenance. However, there is a
tendency that the Javanese language used is shifting. The shift is characterized by various code system
namely Indonesian, Basa, Ngoko, sometimes Krama, and even English
