INCREASING STUDENTS' CULTURAL AWARENESS BY USING FILM IN TEACHINGCROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
This research is about the students 'attitude toward the use of films in teaching Cross Cultural Understanding as classroom research taking fourth semester students of English and Literature department, Adab and Humanities Faculty of UIN Alauddin as the sample of the research. The research question put forward is: what is the student's attitude toward the use of film in increasing their cultural awareness. The research instrument is a questionnaire consists of sixteen items which aims at finding out the students' attitude toward using films in increasing their cultural awareness.The data analysis showed that they have positive attitude toward the use of film in the Cross Cultural Understanding class because: 1. Films were interesting material, 2. Using films were new variation of teaching in the class, 3.Students understand the material easier, 4. Students know the other culture better. Film can also increase students' cultural awareness because: 1.They get information from the movie, 2.They can compare their culture and others, 3. It can prevent them from culture shock if they study Cross Cultural Understanding. Keywords: cultural awareness, cross cultural understanding, film