Kunto Nurcahyoko, 2201407137 (2011) Developing reading Material of Public Tolerance through Interactive Multimedia Using Flash Player for the Fourth grade Students of Elementary School. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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vi ABSTRACT Nurcahyoko, Kunto. 2011. Developing reading Material of Public Tolerance through Interactive Multimedia Using Flash Player for the Fourth grade Students of Elementary School. Final project. English Department. Faculty of Languages and Arts. Semarang State University. First Advisor: Dr. Dwi Anggani L.B, M.Pd., Second Advisor: Maria Johana Ari W. S.S., M.Si. Key Word : reading, character building, interactive multimedia, research and development. Reading becomes essential aspect in learning Englsih. Through reading, the students can access the knowledge and information everywhere. Seeing that significance role of reading, it is a must for the teacher to create effective material to teach reading. Another aspects which is also important for Indonesia students now is character building material. Character building is very important to be integrated within the curriculum in Indonesia especially reading. By doing so, the students will get better understanding about public tolerance. Based on tose two urgencies, the researcher conducted reasearch to know what the reading problem of the fourth students in elemntary school. Besides that, the reasearcher also wants to know how to develop the reading material containing public tolerance to the students effectively. The subject of this study was fourth grade students of SD N 2 Kancilan in the academic year 2010/2011. After conducting two months research using Research and Develpment method, it can be concluded that there was a bit problem in reading activities of fourth grade students in SD N 2 Kancilan in the academic year 2010/2011. The reading material and activities used by the teacher was not really attractive to the students. This problem could be solved by presenting the interactive reading multimedia material of public tolerance to attract the students‘ attention, not only reading, but also their understanding about the importance of public tolerance. There is one more finding. It states that in developing the effective multimedia reading material, the teacher must do several steps. Generally, the process consists of 6 steps started from analyzing, designing, developing, experts validating, revising, implementing. From the experts‘ validation, it can be concluded that overall the product was excellent. The average score for each aspect was 5. It covers up the content appropriateness, the content effectiveness and appropriateness, the ease of navigation, and the attractiveness of the multimedia. It means that by the design, the product is quite appropriate to be implemented in the classroom. From the implementation step, it can be concluded that the multimedia reading material is significant in helping the students to understand the material. From this step, the almost all of the students can answer the exercise in the material correctly. From the interview, it can be concluded also that multimedia reading material is able to motivate the students in learning more.

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