Media Based on Technology to Study Spoken Javanese Politeness

Abstract

Being able to speak using unggah-ungguh basa (speech levels) is one of the indicators of students' speaking skill in Javanese language. The use of IT-based teaching media can be an alternative way to develop students' speaking skill and stimulate students' creativity, innovation, and thinking skills as well. This was a quasi experiment carried out at Senior High School in Purworejo, Central Java, Indonesia. The finding wasthe average score of the control group was 74.5 and that of the experimental group was 82.2. T-test showed that ttable was 4.87 and tcount was 2.000. The research confirms that IT-based teaching media are effective to teach Javanese speaking skill using unggah-ungguh basa(speech levels).