Boosting Indonesian Students' Character with Imaginative Literature

DOI

10.2991/ictte-17.2017.85How to use a DOI?

Keywords

imaginative literature; students; character; education

Abstract

Literature, especially imaginative ones has a purpose to amuse and move the feeling of the readers. More than that, actually imaginative literature also has the potentiality to keep and develop human characteristics. In this globalization era, many students need guidance in developing their motivation and politeness. One of many factors which influence the quality of English education program is the attention and big support of teacher and parents towards the children's need. Therefore, parents and teachers hold the strong role in handling and conducting the children education. In this chance both the parents and the teachers can use the moral values of imaginative literature as a valuable approach in assisting the development of students' characteristics. Without the support from parents and teachers, moral values of imaginative literature cannot be transferred easily. This study aimed at revealing how imaginative literature build students behavior. This research is a descriptive qualitative study which explore the advantages of using imaginative literature as a media to motivate the students in improving the character. Indonesian culture and English culture, has many similarities in some way, principally. The results show that first, there is a very tight relationship between teachers and parents role and moral values of imaginative literature transferring. Second, habit and custom are part of culture which should be cared well to make imaginative literature products become more potential.

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© 2017, 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  - Wiwin Widyawati
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TI  - Boosting Indonesian Students' Character with Imaginative Literature
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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