Designing a Supplementary Reading Using Cultural Language Learning Approach (CLLA)

This paper reports on a project findings concerning the design of a Supplementary Reading Book using
Cultural Language Learning Approach ( CLLA). The project was conducted in Yogyakarta, Indonesia that
generally aimed at designing supplementary reading materials using CLLA as a guide book for tourist
guides who worked for Sonobudoyo Museum. The book is entitled “The Javanese Cultural Heritages
Reserved in Sonobudoyo Museum (JCHRSM)”. This utilized a developmental research design, which
consisted of three procedures, namely: (1) exploration, aiming to analyze the needs of the tour guides of
Sonobudoyo Museum; (2) development, to design a supplementary reading guide book for the
(candidate) tourist guides working for Sonobudoyo Museum; and (3) validation, to find the designed
guide book accuracy. This study found: (1) The tour guides’ needs was JCHRSM using CLLA; (2) the
designed book was matched with the tour guides’ needs; and (3) the designed guide book was judged
accurate and compatible for Sonobudoyo tour guides. This was judged accurate since: (1) it was
designed based on the results of the tour guide needs analysis and book’s content analysis as suggested
by McDonough and McDonough; (2) the 12 times cyclical treatments resulted continually learning
improvement on the trainees’ reading skills; and (3) the guide book validation through statistical
analysis using Mean Difference (Md) formula and One-shot study experimental design yielded
significant gain score between the average score of pretest and post-test, i.e. 8.2>5.6. Besides, the result
of FGD (Focus Group Discussion) also indicated that the supplementary reading guide book was
recommended as an alternative reference especially for Sonobudoyo tour guides