Promoting Students’ Comprehension on Japanese Language About Malay Culture in Tourism Sector of Riau Province Through Learning Product Development

Abstract

As a Japanese language student at a university in Riau, it would be ideal if you were able to use Japanese to convey information about Riau Malay culture. To support this, teachers need to innovatively develop learning material and media for these purposes. This research develops a learning product in the form of videos containing Japanese dialogues with tourism themes that are full of information and Riau Malay cultural values. The videos using Powtoon application includes animation, sound, photos, and text. The method used is Research and Development. The development model used is 4D (Four D) which consists of define, design, development, disseminate. Two steps, namely define and design, have been reported in previous research, while in this article we will explain the development and disseminate steps. Based on the results of material and media validation, experts stated that the materials and media were suitable for use. Aspects of understanding the content of the dialogue, presentation of the dialogue, and feedback regarding the content of the dialogue are aspects that are assessed at the video use stage. Students gave the impression through a questionnaire that the teaching media developed helped increase their mastery of vocabulary related to Riau tourism and culture, provided examples of dialogue that were important, and conveying information in certain fields, namely culture and tourism. The results of the validation of the two experts stated that both media and material deemed suitable for use. The eligibility value for media is 88 or Very Good, and for material it is 78 or Good. The value obtained from the response students are as follows: 97% say teaching materials are important, 94% said the teaching material was interesting, 75% said the material was not difficult, 94% stated that new vocabulary had increased, 91% expressed insight into Riau tourism Japanese language increased, 69% stated that teaching materials were communicative.