An Analysis of Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 01 Citeureup, Bogor Perception on Indonesia Folklores Existed in English Reading Textbook

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DIAPHENIA SAFIRA. NIM: 1601055045. An Analysis of Tenth Grade Students
of SMAN 01 Citeureup, Bogor Perception on Indonesia Folklores Existed in
English Reading Textbook. A Paper, Jakarta: The University of Muhammadiyah
Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2020.
This study investigates tenth grade students’ perception of English
textbooks which contain Indonesia Folklores as its reading material. We find
nowadays that a lot of reading materials or text existed in students’ English textbook
which are written based on Indonesia folklores, such as Sangkuriang, Malin
Kundang, or any other story. This phenomenon is interesting knowing that
commonly reading materials or text in English textbook are dominantly contained
English famous folklores or fiction story such as Cinderella, Snow White, and etc.
Therefore, this study focuses on finding out students’ original perspective on
Indonesia Folklores in English textbook which may have three possibilities; either
positive, neutral, or negative views. To get the answer, this study applied both closeended
and open-ended questionnaires as instruments of the research within mix
method research’s design (quantitatively and qualitatively). The respondents were
60 tenth grade students’ in SMAN 01 Citeureup, Bogor as the place to do research.
The result of the close-ended questionnaire was 1) Reading Indonesia Folklores is
interesting, fun, and motivating or mean (X)= 43 and 2) Reading Indonesia
Folklores emerge cultural awareness or mean (X)= 47.responses in positive
agreement with Indonesian Folklores in English Textbook. It was followed by one
item in the open-ended questionnaire to get a more accurate perception, which
asked about in your perspective, an English textbook containing folklore is useful
in increasing interest in reading in learning English as well as protecting cultural
preservation. Please give a reason? If not included also the reason? The finding
reveals that students have a positive perception of Indonesia folklores in English
Textbook, which makes them motivated and make their cultural awareness.