Students' Perception on Reading Text: A Review for Character Building

Zuraida, Zuraida and Zuraida, Zuraida (2013) Students' Perception on Reading Text: A Review for Character Building. In: Int'l Conference for Academic Disciplines (Freiburg 2013), 3-6 Desember 2013, Freiburg, Germany. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

In Indonesia, English textbooks written by Indonesian or American/ English authors have been used by students from primary school to university level. The materials presented are so diverse that eventually tend to raise a different perception among them, especially the reading text. The sources of the texts can be the stories of native culture like Romeo and Juliet or local culture like The Legend of Kemaro Island that are all enjoyable to read and learn. The presence of new curriculum, which is a character-based curriculum, currently becomes a dilemma that has to be taken into account as it expects to meet the students’ needs in learning English by focusing only on local wisdom. This research aims to find out the students’ perception towards native culture versus local culture-based reading text in an English textbook used by high school students in Palembang regarding their character building and growth of interest in learning English. The method used is a descriptive- uantitative method. Questionnaire and an English textbook are the instruments. The result of this research indicates that students consider local culture-based reading text as their preference in learning English and character building due to its easiness and relevance to their daily living. Key words: Perception, reading text, character building

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) > L7-991 Education (General) P Language and Literature > PD Germanic languages P Language and Literature > PD Germanic languages > PD1-(7159) Germanic P Language and Literature > PD Germanic languages > PD1-780 General P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania > PL5051-5497 Malayan (Indonesian) languages P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania > PL8000-8009 Languages P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Divisions:	06-Faculty of Education and Educational Science > 88111-Linguistics Education (S2)
Depositing User:	Zuraida Zuraida
Date Deposited:	10 May 2023 13:11
Last Modified:	10 May 2023 13:11
URI:	http://repository.unsri.ac.id/id/eprint/101520

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