Abstract

Short story writing is one of the skills that must be mastered by students of the Indonesian Language Education Study Program. One of the determining success factors is the presence of a comprehensive reference source. This research aimed to facilitate the short story writing learning, lecturer, and students by using the digital book as a reference. This study discussed the improvement of short story writing skills using a digital book based on local wisdom for the Indonesian Language Education Study Program students. With the help of digital book media, various types of local wisdom could be incorporated into the short story writing. A quantitative method was employed to describe the findings regarding the use of digital books in short story writing. The technique used in the effectiveness test was the paired samples t-test. The findings focused on the effectiveness of short story writing learning using a digital book compared to a printed book in terms of increasing student creativity. Both significance test results obtained values below 0.05, indicating a significant difference between the results of short story writing in the pre-test (control group) and post-test (experimental group) data.

Low speech skill using Javanese’s Krama Alus in junior high school students led the writers to apply quantum method in learning process. Research and observation on the implementation of learning using Quantum method eventually resulted in a Classroom Action Research with 28 junior high school students as the research subjects. In addition, this research aims at improving students’ skills in giving a speech using Javanese’s Krama Alus. The study was conducted in two cycles; cycle 1 was learning with quantum method in homogeneous student groups (ability) and cycle 2 was learning with quantum methods in heterogeneous groups of students. There were four steps in the research procedure, i.e. action planning, action implementation, observation and reflection. The research data was obtained and collected using two techniques, test and non-test ones. Testing data validity was conducted in two ways; (1) data triangulation and (2) methods triangulation. Then, the data were analyzed by comparative descriptive and analytical critical techniques. The Indicators of action success were (1) Quality of the learning process and (2) Achievement of learning outcomes, in the form of skill in giving a speech using krama alus Javanese. The research data show that there are some developments in each observed cycle, from pre-cycle, cycle 1, and cycle 2. Moreover, the data show an increase in learning motivation (indicator of learning process success), and an increase in learning achievement (as an indicator of learning outcomes achievement). Based on the data and the discussion, it can be concluded that students become skilled at giving a speech using Javanese’ s Krama Alus with the application of quantum learning method.

Cross-cultural and intercultural communication is a cross-ethnic communication that naturally arises in a social context with different religious, social, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. In this case, it is learned how people with different cultural backgrounds interact with each other using their language. One form of communication can be seen from the use of speech acts and the form of interference from the communicant language. This paper aims to describe how the use of Malay Manado local language interference in academic discourse at Alkhairaat Palu University of Central Sulawesi. The method employed to prepare this research is descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected throught observation, recording, and interview. Systematically analyzed by using the descriptive qualitative model of interactive. The results of this study concludes that the Malay Manado local language used in acting speech to ethnic Kaili and Makassar as linguistic features between students. In the speech acts are also colored the use of Manado language interference seen vowel changing / e / and / i /, vowel removal/ e /, and consonant removal / s /, / t /, and / k /. This language varies as a result of cross-cultural and intercultural communication within the academic community in accordance with its social context.

Ketoprak merupakan seni tradisional Jawa yang lahir dan berkembang dari kalangan masyarakat, sehingga seni ketoprak sangat kental dengan nilai yang relevan dengan kehidupan masyarakat Jawa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan dan menjelaskan mengenai potret sosial masyarakat Jawa yang tercermin dalam naskah ketoprak klasik gaya Surakarta. Penelitian ini berbentuk penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dengan menggunakan pendekatan sosiologi sastra pada naskah ketoprak klasik gaya Surakarta. Sumber data primer dalam penelitian adalah naskah ketoprak dengan judul Ronggolawe Gugur, Pandanaran Mbalela, dan Ki Ageng Mangir Wonoboyo. Setelah dilakukan analisis data dapat disimpulkan bahwa dalam naskah ketoprak klasik gaya Surakarta terdapat potret sosial masyarakat Jawa yang tercermin dari kon ik dan masalah yang dibahas dalam ketiga naskah tersebut, nilai sosial yang tercermin, dan bahasa yang digunakan. Kon ik yang terdapat dalam ketiga naskah ketoprak tersebut berkaitan dengan masalah bela negara, budaya perjodohan kalangan masyarakat Jawa, nilai pertemanan, dan permasalahan kekuasaan. Dari analisis data dapat disimpulkan bahwa dalam naskah ketoprak klasik gaya Surakarta terdapat re eksi dari kehidupan sosial masyarakat Jawa ditinjau dari aspek bahasa, sistem nilai, dan permasalahan sosial yang dibahas.