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Masculinity is a social construct often internalized in society through various forms, including literary works. This study aims to analyze the representation of masculinity in Boy Candra's novel Trauma, particularly through male characters interacting with the protagonist, Kimara. This research employs the approaches of literary sociology, gender theory, and trauma theory to understand how masculinity is depicted. Data were collected through a critical reading technique applied to the novel's text. The analysis reveals that masculinity is represented in various forms, ranging from emotional dominance to expressions of affection, as well as the influence of trauma in shaping gender dynamics. These findings emphasize that masculinity in Trauma is not an innate trait but a social construct influenced by emotional and social contexts. The study contributes to gender studies and Indonesian literature, while also enhancing readers’ understanding of the complexity of masculinity in literary works.

Masculinity is a social construct often internalized in society through various forms, including literary works. This study aims to analyze the representation of masculinity in Boy Candra's novel Trauma, particularly through male characters interacting with the protagonist, Kimara. This research employs the approaches of literary sociology, gender theory, and trauma theory to understand how masculinity is depicted. Data were collected through a critical reading technique applied to the novel's text. The analysis reveals that masculinity is represented in various forms, ranging from emotional dominance to expressions of affection, as well as the influence of trauma in shaping gender dynamics. These findings emphasize that masculinity in Trauma is not an innate trait but a social construct influenced by emotional and social contexts. The study contributes to gender studies and Indonesian literature, while also enhancing readers’ understanding of the complexity of masculinity in literary works.

Reading plays an important role in building a literate generation that is able to improve academic skills, broaden horizons and maintain local cultural identity. However, the low interest in reading in Indonesia, especially among students, is a big challenge. Internal factors, such as student motivation, and external factors, such as family and school support, are highly influential. Strategies such as reading for pleasure, edutainment and the School Literacy Movement are effective in fostering a reading culture as well as shaping students' characters, such as honesty, empathy and critical thinking. Challenges in implementation include limited reading materials, teacher training, technology support and collaboration with the community. Strategic steps, such as enrichment of reading materials, intensive teacher training and community involvement, are needed to overcome them. With good literacy, students can think critically, have character and contribute positively. This research uses a qualitative approach through a literature study to examine the importance of literacy culture.

The integration of video games into education has garnered attention for its potential to enhance learning experiences, particularly in fostering engagement and autonomous skill development. This qualitative study investigates EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners' perceptions of using Disco Elysium, a narrative-driven role-playing game, as a supplementary tool for language learning. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, focusing on the experiences of EFL learners who engaged with the game's complex linguistic and narrative content. The findings reveal that participants perceive Disco Elysium as a unique and immersive learning medium, aiding in vocabulary acquisition, reading comprehension, and critical thinking. However, challenges such as the game's advanced vocabulary, cultural references, and morally complex themes were also identified. By centering on learner perspectives, this study contributes to the limited research on the role of narrative-driven games in language learning. The results provide insights into how such games can be integrated into educational contexts to complement traditional EFL learning methods.

Children's interest in reading in Indonesia is still a big challenge, although there are many efforts to improve it. Many factors influence, such as lack of access to interesting books, more dominant gadget play habits, and also an environment that is less supportive of reading habits. However, children's interest in reading in Indonesia can grow if they are introduced to relevant and interesting books, and encouraged to read from an early age. To foster an interest in reading, children need to be given the opportunity to find the type of reading that suits their interests and age. Books that are exciting and easy to understand can be a bridge so that they are more interested in reading. In addition, a supportive school and family environment, such as providing special time to read and discuss books, also plays a very important role in fostering positive reading habits. This research is qualitative with informants from the Principal and supporting informants for librarians, teachers and students at Nurul Hadina Junior High School. Data were collected using observation, interviews and documentation. The results of the study show that Nurul Hadina Junior High School plays an active role in increasing students' interest in reading through the school library. The role of the subjects in this library is (1) teaching how to find information, (2) improving writing skills, (3) helping independent learning, (4) improving reading habits, (5) helping with schoolwork, (6) critical thinking skills.

Reading is a highly beneficial activity for gaining information, knowledge, and insights. When the children are encouraged to develop reading habits from an early age, they are likely to grow into individuals who enjoy reading. During this crucial and education phase, children exhibit creativity, imagination, and honesty in their thoughts and emotions. However, according to UNESCO, the literacy rate in Indonesia remains relatively low. Through the use of interactive storytelling in childrens’s education, thin community service projecta aims to promote a culture of reading. The first step in the initiative involves providing media that highlight the benefits of interactive storytelling in enhancing children’s reading interest. This method is expected to offer a fun and engaging learning experience while fostering children’s creativity, imagination, and critical thinking skills. Interactive storytelling also serves as an effective teaching strategy to support the holistic development of children.

The aim of this research is to determine the role of literacy activities in encouraging student creativity at SMPN 21 Serang City. It is hoped that literacy, as an important component in education, can help students improve their critical and creative thinking abilities. At this school, literacy activities such as writing, reading and discussions are carried out with the aim of broadening horizons and improving communication skills. This research was conducted qualitatively through case studies and using observations, interviews and documentation of literacy activities in schools. The results show that literacy activities at SMPN 21 Serang City have a significant influence on increasing student creativity, both in academic and non-academic terms. Students are more creative, complete assignments in innovative ways, and participate actively in learning activities.    

The digital era has changed the way teenagers interact with information and spiritual practices. On the one hand, quick access to various sources can enrich religious knowledge. On the other hand, inaccurate or deviant information is also easily spread, potentially leading to shirk practices. Teenagers in the identity search phase are often influenced by social media content and popular culture that can cloud their understanding of monotheism. The main challenge faced is the shift in spiritual values where traditional religious practices are often replaced by new rituals and beliefs that are not in accordance with religious teachings. The transformation of spiritual practices among teenagers is also seen in their adaptation to digital platforms, where many seek community and spiritual support online. The purpose of this study is to identify effective strategies to support a correct understanding of monotheism and reduce the influence of shirk, as well as to utilize the potential of digital media for constructive religious education. Empowering teenagers in understanding and practicing religious teachings critically is very important to maintain the authenticity of spiritual practices in the digital era. The method used in this study is a descriptive qualitative method, by making the Qur'an, books of hadith, books, magazines, articles and related journals as the main reading sources. The results of the study show; (1) that the advancement of digital technology has a great influence on the imitation of foreign cultures that smack of polytheism, (2) several figures exemplify the culture of polytheism while social media spreads it, (3) It is difficult to stem the flood of information on social media. Efforts to improve it include frequently listening to studies and attending training on the dangers of polytheism.

This study explores the effectiveness of StudyTok, a TikTok-based educational initiative, in fostering media literacy among university students. Using a descriptive quantitative approach, data were gathered from 40 students to evaluate the platform's impact on engagement, reading comprehension, writing proficiency, and critical thinking. Results revealed that 85% of participants found StudyTok engaging, with notable improvements in reading comprehension (70%) and critical thinking (75%). However, only 60% reported significant enhancement in writing skills, indicating room for more structured content in this area. The study highlights generational differences in platform navigation, with digital natives adapting seamlessly compared to digital immigrants who faced initial challenges. Guided by Potter’s Media Literacy Theory, this research underscores StudyTok’s potential to bridge digital literacy gaps and recommends its integration into educational curricula to foster inclusive, critical media consumption skills.

Reader response theory offers a dynamic approach to understanding literary interpretation, shifting focus from text-centered analysis to reader engagement. This study investigates reader responses to Diana Wynne Jones's "Howl's Moving Castle" through an analysis of reviews on Goodreads, utilizing Beach's framework of reader-response theory. Employing a qualitative descriptive method, the research collected 60 reader comments, systematically sampling one review per month over the past year. The analysis categorized responses across five dimensions: textual, experiential, psychological, social, and cultural, revealing that experiential responses (33.33%) and textual responses (27.08%) predominated. Additionally, the study examined reader engagement across cognitive (50%), emotional (36.4%), and behavioral (13.6%) dimensions. Findings demonstrate how online reading communities like Goodreads transform literary interpretation from a solitary to a collaborative experience, highlighting the complex ways readers interact with literary texts. By exploring the nuanced responses to "Howl's Moving Castle," this research contributes to our understanding of contemporary reading practices, critical thinking literacy, and the evolving landscape of digital literary engagement.

The education system in Singapore is known for its effective teaching methods and high academic results in international tests. This makes education in Singapore can be said to be advanced. The education system in Singapore has evolved from the traditional British education model to be more adaptive and innovative, with a focus on individual and talent development. Singapore is also implementing various educational reforms to increase global competitiveness, such as "Thinking Schools, Learning Nation" which encourages critical thinking skills. This research aims to analyze the education system in Singapore as a comparison with Indonesia. The research method used is library research where data sources are obtained from books, articles, journals and other reading materials. This research can produce knowledge about the education system in Singapore and comparisons with Indonesia.

This critical paper seeks to provide a reading of the novel “Al Tanki” through the concepts of multiple voices and the ideological presence of the characters within the novel, and then the ideology adopted by the narrative work. This study also works to clarify the concept of narrative fragmentation, breaking the development of traditional narrative, building a new architecture for the worlds of narrative narrative, exploring the fabric of Alia Mamdouh’s novel “Al_ Tanki”, and attempting to reveal the artistic impact of these two concepts on the form and content of the novel.

This research explores the impact of the "Let's Read" application on enhancing the reading skills of eleventh-grade students at SMAN 1 Kademangan Blitar. Focusing on narrative texts, especially legends, the study employs a one-group pre-test post-test design to evaluate improvements in reading comprehension. Results reveal a significant increase in students' understanding and engagement with texts. The application offers an interactive, enjoyable learning experience, promoting student autonomy and critical thinking. By integrating digital tools, the study addresses limitations of traditional methods, providing insights into effective strategies for language education. This research underscores the potential of technology to transform reading practices, encouraging educators to adopt innovative approaches that cater to modern educational needs and enhance students’ overall learning experiences.

The literacy program implemented at MTs Muslimat NU as part of the MBKM initiative addresses the low reading interest among students by fostering a sustainable reading culture. This program aimed to optimize the school library as a center of learning and increase students’ participation in literacy activities. Activities were structured to accommodate gender-specific groups, dividing each class into two sessions—one for female students and another for male students—conducted from Monday to Thursday. Each group participated twice weekly, engaging in reading exercises, book discussions, and digital literacy training. The methods involved collaborative planning with teachers and students of MBKM, surveys, and focus group discussions to identify the specific needs of the school community. The results demonstrated significant improvements in reading habits, as evidenced by a 30% increase in library visits and active participation in literacy clubs. Additionally, the program fostered the emergence of student leaders who encouraged their peers to engage in reading and critical discussions. This participatory approach proved effective in creating a dynamic literacy ecosystem and strengthening social cohesion within the school. The findings underline the importance of integrating literacy programs with active community participation and optimizing libraries as educational hubs, ensuring long-term benefits in developing reading skills and fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing. 

Early literacy materials can give a person softness of heart, critical thinking skills and creative understanding. The purpose of this study was to understand the ways in which teachers teach group B children aged 5-6 years about the concept of reading and to identify factors that may hinder the successful implementation of these strategies. This study utilized a qualitative method with a descriptive approach. Data was collected by conducting observations, interviews and documentation. The research noted that teachers apply a variety of strategies in introducing core reading concepts including; whiteboard media as an opener, coloring as a habituation in recognizing letters, letter guessing games with smart wall media, storytelling, stage books. The implementation of these strategies has been quite optimally done at Ra Al-Kamal because the teachers are very enthusiastic and fast so that the learning process is carried out conducively. 

This study aims to analyze the interpretation of hadiths concerning women’s roles in the public sphere through a hermeneutical approach, reaffirming an inclusive and contextual Islamic perspective on gender. The research arises from the dominance of literal and patriarchal readings of hadiths that tend to limit women’s participation in social and educational domains. Employing a qualitative library research method, this study examines relevant hadith texts and explores the views of contemporary Muslim hermeneutical thinkers such as Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Fazlur Rahman, and Amina Wadud. The findings reveal that hermeneutics provides a methodological framework capable of fostering gender-just interpretations by emphasizing the historical, social, and moral dimensions of the hadith text. The reinterpretation demonstrates that many hadiths previously understood restrictively are, in fact, contextual rather than universally normative. The study’s implications encourage a new paradigm in Islamic scholarship that is more reflective, critical, and socially responsive. The novelty of this research lies in integrating hermeneutical analysis with thematic hadith studies on women’s participation in the public domain, an area rarely explored in depth. This research thus contributes significantly to developing a more humanistic and egalitarian Islamic epistemology.

This study analyzes the quality of content and ineffectiveness of sentences in opinion texts on the December 2023 edition of the "Taulebih" website as educational literacy for sexuality education and reproductive health based on religious values. This research uses two approaches, namely the methodological approach and the theoretical approach. The methodological approach uses a qualitative descriptive approach, while the theoretical approach uses a syntactic approach to analyze the quality of content and analyze effective sentences. Data collection techniques in this study used intensive reading techniques and note-taking techniques. The data that has been collected is then analyzed using the agih method. The presentation of data in the study was carried out by informal methods. Analysis of content quality and effective calibration on the opinion text on the December 2023 edition of the "Taulebih" website as educational literacy for sexuality education and reproductive health based on religious values also uses the presentation of data in tables to facilitate and clarify data analysis. The results of the content quality analysis are supported by strong and interconnected opinions and reasons from the opinion article. Meanwhile, the ineffectiveness of sentences in the opinion text "Taulebih" includes incompatibility of the characteristics of effective sentences, ambiguous sentences, waste of words or pleonasm, and spelling errors. This research adds new knowledge insight and critical sense in terms of analyzing the quality of content and effective sentences in an opinion text. It is hoped that this research can also be useful for readers in writing the right opinion text according to linguistic rules to produce good-quality sentences that are arranged effectively.

Understanding literacy and linguistics in Indonesia, especially through novel reading, plays an important role in honing students' cognitive skills, such as critical and creative thinking. Syntax as part of linguistic studies, helps students understand language structures that support effective communication and deeper literary appreciation. This study aims to understand the structure and function of active and passive sentences in Indonesian focusing on the types of active and passive sentences and the role of sentence elements in shaping meaning. This study uses methodological and theoretical approaches with qualitative and syntactic descriptive methods to analyze the pattern of sentence function in the novel "9 of Nadira" by Leila S. Chudori. The research process involves data collection, classification, analysis, and presentation of data with listen, record, and bill techniques. The results showed that the sentence function pattern in the novel "9 of Nadira" by Leila S. Chudori uses different sentence patterns in each active and passive voice. Transitive and bitransitive active sentences have additional objects and complements, while intransitive sentences do not, and only sentences with objects can be changed to passive by undergoing changes in their predicates. This research has the benefit of providing a deeper understanding of the structure and function of active and passive sentences in Indonesian.  

This study aims to identify and explain errors in the structure, function, and role of language in news texts on digital platforms. This research is useful to know how to classify sentences and improve sentence structuring, and then the results of the research can be used in Indonesian language learning in grade IX junior high school. The method used is the descriptive qualitative method. The method analyzes language errors, such as analyzing keywords, grammatical error analysis, and semantic error analysis. The data used in the analysis uses descriptive methods so that it can be done in this study describes the data in the form of several sentences in the Kompas digital news text that contains words that are less understandable to junior high school students in grade IX, it can affect students in critical reading analyzing these errors, this article also provides improvements. These errors need to be overcome so that in the future the same language errors will not be repeated. Efforts that can be made to overcome Indonesian language errors at the level of spelling are to improve mastery of Indonesian language rules.

Language is an efficient way to express ideas, emotions, and feelings to communicate a concept through verbal and non-verbal means. Comprehensive learning of language skills is intended to promote emotional, social, and intellectual development, and is useful for filtering important information. The purpose of this study is to determine the location of language errors from the module used, namely in the Indonesian teaching module by Foy Ario, M.Pd, as the feasibility of teaching materials for critical reading for class XII students, so that it can be used as a revision in the future to obtain a quality module, both in terms of the information conveyed and the language used. This research method uses a descriptive qualitative approach as well as a syntactic theoretical approach and analyzes data through data collection, data presentation, data reduction, and conclusion drawing. The results obtained show that the writing of editorial text contained in the Indonesian language teaching module Class XII SMA by Foy Ario is found to use diction that is not by the rules. This is based on standardized word errors, conjunction errors, punctuation errors, word beheading errors, and errors in the accuracy of word usage and effective sentences. The research can be useful as a reference for understanding language identification in scientific papers.