Development of Buru Local Language Conversation Material Based on the Communicative-Interactive Approach for Elementary School Students
Saidna Zulfiqar Bin-Tahir, Aminah Suriaman, Hanapi Hanapi, Risman Iye, M Chairul Basrun Umanailo
Abstract
The Buru Local Language is one of the endangered languages to be extinct in Maluku. Thus, thisresearch aimed at producing a Buru language textbook for students of elementary schools inNamlea to help their learning become more comfortable and more enjoyable based oncommunicative-interactive approaches and expressing their feasibility. This research appliedresearch and development (R&D) using the Dick and Carey model. The product has beenevaluated through expert validation, linguists, and instructional design experts. Data wereanalyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of this study indicated that the Buru locallanguage textbook for elementary school students in Namlea had been developed in accordancewith procedures and the determination of themes based on needs analysis so that it becomes areal and meaningful theme for students' lives and activities, including introduction, andconversation around the school. The test results of the conversation material component showthat: content experts scored the product development as very good and feasible, whileinstructional design experts considered that most of the parts of instructional materials were veryreasonable. Besides, individual test subjects assumed that most elements of the learning materialare excellent. Language teachers considered most of the textbook components to be veryfeasible, and field testing subjects also rated them as very well.