CULTURAL ASPECTS OF ENGLISH SPEAKING MOVIE “42” AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO TEACHING CROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

Rasmadita,Rahayu Diana. 13420239. 2020. Cultural Aspects of English Speaking
Movie “42” and its Contribution to Teaching Cross Cultural Understanding.
Final Project, English Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education,
University of PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dr. Ngasbun Edgar,M.Pd, Advisor II :
Indri Kustantinah,S.Pd,M.Hum.
Keywords: Cultural Aspects, 42 Movie, Cross Cultural Understanding Teaching.
This final project was conducted to analyze culture aspects found in 42 movie and
its contribution to Cross Cultural Understanding Teaching. The objectives of the
study were (1) to find out cultural aspects found in the 42 movie (2) to elaborate
the contributions of the analysis for Cross cultural Understanding Teaching. The
methodology of this research was descriptive qualitative research. The main
sources of this research were 42 movie and script of 42 movie. The researcher
used some steps in analyzing the data. First, the researcher watched the whole
movie more than twice. Second, the researcher read and observed the dialogue to
look for the stages of cultural aspects from the script or the movie. Third, the
researcher collected and categorized the data to classify into categories of
differences between two cultures. Fourth, the researcher identified cultural aspects
in 42 movie. The last, the researcher described cultural aspects in 42 movie. The
analysis results showed that (1) Culture aspect was happened in 42 movie (2)
Based on the analysis, the movie reflects the differences of two cultures, the differ
based on habit, behavior, religion, custom and tradition in White and Black skin
(3) White and Black skin have differences culture in their culture that can help the
students improving their knowledge of each culture in Cross Cultural
Understanding teaching. Based on the results of this final project, the researcher
suggests that the lecturers can use movie as the media of applying the material
dealing with Cross Cultural Understanding and as a reference to teach Cross
Cultural Understanding becoming more interesting. It will make the students
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interested to learn more about Cross Cultural Understanding. It can also increase
the students’ knowledge and improve the students’ understanding of Cross
Cultural Understanding. In this case, the lecturers can take the advantages of
teaching Cross Cultural Understanding and apply in the class while teaching. For
the students can take the advantages of learning Cross Cultural Understanding and
apply in their real life to avoid misunderstanding among different culture in the
world.