TITLE:
Effectiveness of Power Point Media in 4 Seasons as the Sakura Culture Festival
AUTHORS:
Meidy Wollah, Nesti Liuw
KEYWORDS:
Powerpoint Media, 4 Seasons, Cultural Festival
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.7 No.8,
August
21,
2019
ABSTRACT: Culture
festival of the cherry country or what is called the “Matsuri” has many and
varied, that is why in every place in Japan has its own cultural festival. The
Japanese cultural festival has high values for its visitors or we can
conclude that the Japanese cultural festival is an activity of exchange of
values to uphold the customs of their existence. Japanese cultural festivals follow the 4 seasons in Japan, namely spring
(haru), summer (natsu), autumn (aki) and winter (fuyu). These 4
seasons are a technology for Japanese people and are very influential in their
cultural festivals. Many festivals occur and follow the 4 seasons in Japan, and
the most interesting, with the emergence of the most popular festivals, and
only occur every season, namely the spring festival hanami (haru), the summer
festival tanabata (natsu), momiji festival in the autumn (aki) and Sapporo
festival in winter (fuyu). In this research, researchers will discuss Japanese
culture festivals that affect 4 seasons in Japan. Where the researchers will
introduce it through existing power point slide media. In this research, the
effectiveness of power point slide media in 4 seasons as Sakura’s cultural festival,
will use qualitative research methods, namely a contextual study that makes
humans as instruments, and adapted to a reasonable situation in relation to
data collection which is generally qualitative. This research took place at the
Manado State Polytechnic Department of Business Administration. Sources of data
are primary, namely data taken directly at the student. While secondary data is
a literature study and Japanese language curriculum. Data collection techniques
are observation and research questionnaire. The data analysis technique is an
effort to systematically search and organize the results of observations and
dissemination of questionnaires to improve researchers’ understanding of the
findings based on the problems studied. The results of this study are research
instruments in the form of questionnaires with 9 questions, 3 options given 1 -
3 and number of respondents 143 people. Each item gets the highest score, and
the result = 3 × 9 × 143 = 3861. For the
highest score that is = 3, with the number of items = 9 and the number of
respondents = 143. The total score of the answers from 143 respondents is =
3264. Thus it can be seen the percentage value according to the perception of
143 respondents is = 3264: 3861 × 100 = 84.5%. From
the results of data processing with each question, with the number of
respondents 143, declared valid. This research aims to enable students to
recognize Japanese characters, students can get to know Japanese customs; students can get to know Japanese culture and what Japan is like. Students can
get to know the cultural festival at 4 seasons in Japan through an existing
learning media, namely power point media. The students are not only taught Japanese
language education, but get an introduction to Japanese culture.