The Development of Literary Appreciation Instrument in Building Students’ Character
| Main Author: | Inderawati, Rita |
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| Format: | Article PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Terbitan: |
David Publishing
, 2012
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.unsri.ac.id/2717/1/Rita_Inderawati_The_Development_of_Literary_Appreciation_Instrument_in.pdf http://eprints.unsri.ac.id/2717/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Reading literary works does not only function at entertaining, but also gives moral values to influence students’ behavior and to strengthen the establishment of character and personality. Literature is an important subject in learning and becomes a compulsory subject in several faculties. The problem posed in this inquiry is how to develop literary appreciation instrument to establish students’ character. Employing development research, this investigation implemented at the Teachers’ Training and Education Faculty of Sriwijaya University with 89 students as the respondents is aimed at producing a literary appreciation instrument arranged by collaborating reader response strategy, the theory of psycho-literature, Pavlov conditioning theory, and character building theory. The findings of this study are: A valid and effective instrument to build students’ character by reading and responding literary works in Personality Development course, the developed literary appreciation instrument is significantly effective to increase students’ literary appreciation which achieves very good category by the emerge of two up to three very good indicators through a test and the result from questionnaire indicates that 95.3% of the students can identify the values in the appreciation instrument when they replied the questions concerning with the story read, and the students’ perception toward the importance of appreciating literary works to establish their character is positively perceived (97%). If it is viewed from the strength of the instrument, it is recommended that literary appreciation be important to teach and to disseminate the appreciation instrument either at the level of language faculty or non-language students and all the levels of education.