Learning Language From Others: Language Contacts and Attitudes among Gayo Lues Students In Banda Aceh

This study aims to determine the language contact and language attitude among Gayo Lues students in Banda Aceh. The method used in this research is qualitative narrative. This research consist of two research questions to answer the problem in this study. There were 6 Gayo Lues participants living in Banda Aceh who were interviewed. They were selected deliberately based on criteria and were involved in in-depth interviews. Researcher found that there were five aspects of language contact that occurred among Gayo Lues students in Banda Aceh, those are dialectal aspect, mixed language, borrowing language, language hegemony, and language shift. In language attitude, it was found that students of Gayo Lues in Banda Aceh had a positive attitude towards their language and others languages.