Text Attributed with Language Attitude in Indonesian Language Instruction as The Efforts to Knit Nationalism in a Frame of Diversity

Abstract

This research aims to 1) describe the use of text attributed with language attitude in Indonesian language instruction and 2) describe student's response to the instruction. It was a descriptive research which data were collected by using observation method and questionnaire. The subjects were 4 lecturers of Indonesian language and 258 students of Unversitas Pendidikan Ganesha. The results of this study indicate that 1) text attributed with language attitude was applied in 4 main steps, namely (1) preparation of conditions, (2) reading of text in groups, (3) intergroup discussions, (4) inferences; 2) Student response in terms of interest, 55.91% of students were very interested, 38.76% of students were interested, and 5.33% were less interested. In terms of textual ability to inspire the sense of nationalism, 63.70% of students felt the text was very capable to do it, 32.43% of students felt the text was capable enough to do it, and 3.88% of students felt the text was less inspiring to raise nationalism within the frame of diversity. Thus, learning was able to attract students and the text used was able to awaken nationalism within the frame of diversity. The implication is the existence of teaching materials to nurture nationalism.