Children’s Story Books: Introducing Cultural Hybridity, Shaping Intercultural Sensitivity for Foreign Language Young Learners (An Observation to Gramedia Books in 2017)

DOI

10.2991/icss-18.2018.185How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Children’s book story, hybridity, intercultural competence, young learners

Abstract

This paper intends to share the potential of the children’s story book in introducing cultural hybridity and shaping intercultural competence for young learners. By grounding upon the data obtained from observing the children’s book stories published by Gramedia and sold in its book store, it is found that shaping of the early. It is found that the aspects related to the words used in the story, setting used, characters’ attributes and subject matters of the story may contribute to the encounters and interactions of Indonesian children, in this case considered as foreign language young learners, with foreign cultures which mark the opportunities in early engaging with hybridity, and later shaping early intercultural sensitivity

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Mister Gidion Maru
AU  - Arie Tulus
AU  - Ekawati M. Dukut
AU  - Nithta Liando
AU  - Jans G. Mangare
AU  - Agustine Clara Mamentu
PY  - 2018/10
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TI  - Children’s Story Books: Introducing Cultural Hybridity, Shaping Intercultural Sensitivity for Foreign Language Young Learners (An Observation to Gramedia Books in 2017)
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 894
EP  - 899
SN  - 2352-5398
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