LET’S “HAVE A LISTEN” TO A RADIO TALK

This paper deals with a traditional program in the radio broadcast in Semarang. It analyzes a short piece of radio talks, which contains Javanese knowledge performed by the radio announcers in Indonesian. The traditional values, used to be reflected in Javanese, are now presented in the modern and national language of the country. The sociocultural issues in the program will be analysed in line with sociolinguistic and ethnographic approaches

RETRIEVING THE SOCIO-POLITICAL HISTORY OF INDONESIAN

This paper deals with historical facts on the use of Malay before it was renamed as Bahasa Indonesia. Its early development reflects the successful attempt of language planning activities done by some socio-political activists. Its socio-political history proves that the activities of language planning cannot escape from policies made by socio-political activists. The case is the same as any attempt of language maintenance. It is not a matter of linguistics alone. To make language maintenance successful, sociolinguists should seriously make good policies to be politically carried out in appropriate linguistic domains

Peningkatan Hasil Belajar Mahasiswa Menggunakan Modul

: Improving The Students\u27 Performance through The Use of Learning Module. This action research is aimed at improving the students\u27 performance through the use of learning module in Curriculum Analysis. Subjects in the research are students taking the course in the second semester of academic year 2008/2009. The research was implemented in two cycles, each of which consisting of four steps: planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. Data were collected through a test. The result shows improvement in students performances. Mastery level increases from 45.45% in the first cycle to 78.79% in the second cycle