ENGLISH VARIETY ANALYSIS ON INSTAGRAM STORIES: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH

In Indonesia, some people use foreign language in their daily interactions, especially English.
There are two main varieties that they usually use, whether British or American English. This study deals with students' writing on Instagram Stories. The aim of this study is to analyze the use of English variety in students' Instagram Stories. This is a qualitative study applying a sociolinguistic approach. The population of this research is 216 students of Islamic Senior High School Palopo, who are in tenth grade. In this study, the researcher collected the students' writing regarding descriptive text and analyzed them using sociolinguistic approach. The result shows that there are two English varieties the students always use in Instagram Stories. They are British English and American English. Compare between these varieties, the students mostly used American English rather than British English. Furthermore, there are two main factors that caused students use these varieties in their writing, they are external and internal factors. The researcher concluded that there are two English varieties found in students' Instagram stories and there are two factors that caused the English varieties.