https://jurnal.untag-sby.ac.id/index.php/ANAPHORA/issue/feed 2025-06-14T14:46:16+00:00 Muizzu Nurhadi muizzu@untag-sby.ac.id Open Journal Systems <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Anaphora : Journal of Language, Literary, and Cultural Studies</strong> is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, open access, and biannual academic journal dedicated to the publications of research in the areas of language, literary, and culture studies. Language studies may include issues in applied linguistics such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, stylistics, corpus linguistics and so forth. Literary studies covers English classics, modern and contemporary literature in the forms of printed, screened, aired or performed texts, comparative literature, children literature, sociology of literature, structuralism, psychoanalysis and so forth. Cultural studies cover cultural texts and practices, especially those associated with issues about language and literature, such as gender criticism, media studies, popular culture, and so forth. Its primary objective is to provide a forum for scholars and practitioners in the areas to address such issues. To be selected for publication, the manuscript should present new ideas in the disciplines, originated from empirical, theoretical, and methodological research within both a single discipline and those that sub- or multi-disciplines. This journal encourages a high standard of scholarship, written in the clear and straightforward organization without requiring that authors alter their analytical style and writing voice</p> https://jurnal.untag-sby.ac.id/index.php/ANAPHORA/article/view/12435 2025-05-04T14:39:40+00:00 Muzakki Bashori muzakkibashori@mail.unnes.ac.id Rizki Aldi Cahyono rizkicahyono792@students.unnes.ac.id Naia Sophianti naiasophianti22@students.unnes.ac.id Mutiara Wardati mutiarawardati4@students.unnes.ac.id Bambang Rakhmanto bambang.rakhmanto@mail.unnes.ac.id Eni Rahmawati eni.rahmawati@mail.unnes.ac.id Dwi Pangesti Aprilia dwipangestiaprilia@gmail.com Muhammad Mujibur Rohman m.rohman14@gmail.com

The globalization era presents challenges in preserving the existence, sustainability, and authenticity of local literary heritage, including folklore. Today, folklore is gradually fading and becoming less familiar among younger generations. However, regional literary literacy plays an essential role in building and maintaining the cultural identity of a community and contributes to fostering positive character development in children from an early age. Recognizing the central role of regional literary literacy in shaping children’s growth and development, it is crucial to internalize positive values derived from folklore amidst moral decadence. Responding to the duality between modernity and the preservation of local wisdom, this study aims to highlight the significant relevance of strengthening regional literature through the read-aloud method. The research focuses on teachers and parents of students at SD Negeri Pakintelan 03 Gunungpati, Semarang, Central Java. “Ketika Nasi Menangis”, a trilingual book developed in Indonesian, Javanese, and English, was used as a medium to support this research. The findings indicate that reading folklore aloud has a positive impact on children’s character development in general and the enhancement of regional literary literacy in particular. For parents and teachers, this study has fostered their understanding of the importance of bedtime storytelling through the read-aloud folklore method, encouraged enthusiasm for narrating bedtime stories, and provided a practical guide for effective storytelling.

2025-05-04T14:39:39+00:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://jurnal.untag-sby.ac.id/index.php/ANAPHORA/article/view/12188 2025-06-14T14:46:16+00:00 Rita Handayani rita_h@untirta.ac.id Della Yunita dellayunita040702@gmail.com

This study aims to examine the representation of cultural dimensions in pictures and written texts (students’ exercises and reading texts) in the English textbook Work in Progress (2022), based on Yuen’s (2011) and Chao’s (2011) theories, and to determine whether the cultural dimensions in the textbook align with intercultural competencies and the Pancasila Student Profile in the Merdeka curriculum. Cultural dimensions are crucial in language learning as they foster global awareness, intercultural understanding, and appreciation of cultural diversity. This qualitative study employs a content analysis methodology to analyze data from the English textbook Work in Progress (2022), designed for tenth-grade high school students and published by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. The analysis, based on Yuen’s (2011) cultural dimensions, indicates that perspectives are the most dominant dimension, followed by persons, products, and practices. Furthermore, the cultural categories based on Chao’s (2011) theory are dominated by international culture, intercultural interaction, source culture, target culture, and universality across culture. The findings highlight the textbook’s alignment with the Merdeka Curriculum’s goals of promoting intercultural competence and global diversity. Yuen’s (2011) cultural dimensions (persons, perspectives, products, and practices) and Chao’s (2011) cultural categories (international culture, intercultural interaction, source culture, target culture, and universality across culture) reflect the Merdeka Curriculum’s emphasis on understanding how cultural dimensions in textbooks support the Pancasila Student Profile’s goal of recognizing and appreciating cultural diversity.

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