BANTAL MIMPI: THINKING LEVELS IN INDONESIAN CHILDREN'S FAIRY TALE

Abstract

This research aims to describe the level of thinking in Indonesian children's fairy tale. The data in this study were the choice of words spoken by the characters, the behavior of the characters shown by operational verbs, and the conflicts that existed in the tale of modern Indonesian children entitled Bantal Mimpi (Dream Pillow-English). This was a popular fairy tale published by Pelangi Mizan. Bantal Mimpi consisted of 20 pages, each page contained 1-2 paragraphs. Each paragraph comprised of a maximum of five sentences. Each page was filled with illustrations that exemplified the contents of the reading. The data underpinned that Bantal Mimpi fulfilled the condition as children reading book and was relevant to be employed as a source of research data. The data of this present research were collected through an intensive reading technique. The ethnocognitive approach was applied in data analysis. The results highlighted that Bantal Mimpi was included in the lower-order thinking skill category. The level of thinking in the fairy tale covered remembering, understanding, applying, and analyzing. The dominant level of thinking featured in the data was remembering.