Japanese Women's Daily Vlog as an Alternative Media for Learning Japanese Culture

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Submitted: 2023-12-11
Published: 2023-12-11
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This study aims to discover what cultural elements students can learn from Japanese women's (Tina’s Life) daily vlog on YouTube channel who live in urban and what messages can be understood from their daily vlogs. This qualitative descriptive study used content observations on her channel and student opinion surveys as primary data. The results of this
study are 1) Tina daily videos are effective as an alternative learning media for understanding Japanese cultural elements for students of Japanese culture, sequentially contains the following elements knowledge system (96,6%), system of technology and equipment (68,5%), language (64%), arts (23,6%), social systems and organizations (13,5%), livelihood systems (7,9%), and religion (2,2%). 2) Students are able to catch the message that Tina wants to convey as a content creator even though the content she has uploaded is of the silent daily vlog type.

References

  1. Dewi Saraswati Sakariah  Japanese Language and Culture Study Program, Faculty of Humanities, DiponegoroUniversity, Indonesia, Indonesia