The Application of Direct Strategy in Learning Japanese Language through Songs (Historical Study of Japan’s Occupation in Minahasa 1942-1945)

Abstract

Strategy is considered important in the process of learning and teaching activity that teachers may encourage students to be active in learning activity and to create a good learning environment in order to achieve the learning goal. There are two types of strategy which students will have to face; direct strategy and indirect strategy. Direct strategy refers to a language learning strategy that directly relates to the target language. Direct strategy of language learning requires complete comprehension of the language itself.This study aims to know the application of direct strategy in learning Japanese language through songs particularly to respondents who experienced Japan’s occupation in Minahasa by the year 1942-1945. The history of Nippon’s occupation in Minahasa is a chronological event of the causal effect in both negative and positive way, namely language inheritance that is inherited to former student’s memory who lived in the era of Japan’s colonization for about 60 year or more. Learning strategy in the era of Nippon’s occupation in Minahasa is a direct learning strategy which is the combination of 3 groups of the strategy: 1. Memorization, 2. Cognition and 3. Compensation.