A TOUCH OF LOCAL WISDOM: THE STUDENTS’ VOICE

Authors

  • Tri Mulyati, Dhalia Soetopo (1) English Department, Faculty of Language and Art, Universitas PGRI Banyuwangi, Jalan Ikan Tongkol Nomor 22, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia (2) History Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas PGRI Banyuwangi, Jalan Ikan Tongkol Nomor 22, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31571/bahasa.v5i2.332

Abstract

This research aims at designing local culture based digital comics for eighth year students of SMP Negeri 1 Kalipuro, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia.  These are designed based on the English syllabus of reading skill and are developed in order to improve the students’ reading comprehension skill, especially in comprehending narrative texts. Also, it aims at preserving local wisdoms of Banyuwangi through English language teaching. The research and development steps comprise some steps adapted from the pattern developed by Borg and Gall. The researchers administered need analysis to 35 students in class VIII.1 in order to gather information dealing with the materials and media in English language teaching and the need on local culture based digital comics. The data was taken from questionnaire, interview, and document analysis. The results of need analysis reveal that the students need to be taught narrative texts with local culture content and a suitable interesting media in the form of digital comics.

Keywords: local wisdom, need analysis, comics, reading.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2017-01-11

How to Cite

Dhalia Soetopo, T. M. (2017). A TOUCH OF LOCAL WISDOM: THE STUDENTS’ VOICE. Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa, 5(2), 294–306. https://doi.org/10.31571/bahasa.v5i2.332

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2016): Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa

Section

Articles

License

License and Publishing Agreement
In submitting the manuscript to the journal, the authors certify that:

  1. They are authorized by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
  2. The work described has not been formally published before, except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, thesis, or overlay journal.
  3. That it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere,
  4. That its publication has been approved by all the author(s) and by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – of the institutes where the work has been carried out.
  5. They secure the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere.
  6. They agree to the following license and publishing agreement.

Copyright
Authors who publish with Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. 
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.