Describing Vocational High School Students’ Intercultural Sensitivity as Viewed From Their Perceptions of the Scenes Shown on Foreign Short Film : A Case Study

Abstract

Nowadays, preparing students with intercultural aspects since the early stage can be very beneficial for them as a new global worker. Particularly, students in a vocational school are expected to be ready in facing their local and inter-local environment and also pursue their professional careers across borders as a new global worker power after they graduate from the vocational school. Based on my observation during my teaching practicum program in SMKN 2 Jember, I found that some of the tenth-grade students were low in intercultural aspects. To solve this problem, I need to find various and invaluable media to equip the students' knowledge about intercultural aspects in the class. One of the media which can be used is a short film. This research focused on the analysis of vocational high school students intercultural sensitivity as viewed from their perceptions of the scenes show on a foreign short film at SMKN 2 Jember. The research design was a case study research. The school was chosen as the research context because of some reasons. One of the reason was there had been no studies on the analysis of students’ intercultural aspects by using short film in this school. In collecting the data, I used a questionnaire and interview.