Enhancing Cultural Identity Through Speaking Class Using Mind Mapping Board to Face Industrial Revolution 4.0

Abstract

Kudus is identified as Kota Santri due to its identity through its Islamic culture. Cultural awareness must be possessed people surroundings. Teachers can foster it in the classroom activity by approaching students' background knowledge as target culture. Speaking is one way to activate students' ideas, particularly in revealing the culture of Kudus. The qualitative study is used to analyze the integration of cultural identity work and classroom learning at MTS N 2 Kudus. It has a purpose to deliver understanding of students' experience through speaking. MMB is used as a media to ease students to deliver their ideas into speaking. Every concept and idea in MMB is organized into framework of mapping. Hence, students enhance their cultural identity by exploring physical appearance, cultural activities, and their creativity into activities in their everyday lives. Furthermore, cultural identities depict them into sense of belonging also plays a central role in connecting person to social change and act them to study the relationship between the social and the self. By physical appearance, students have identities and self of belonging in society. Thus, it allows mutual influence between self and society. Finally, MMB media is an effective way for students to organize concepts and ideas to support their speaking skills and prepare communication skills in the era of industrial revolution 4.0.