Exploring Intertextuality Practices Of An Indonesian Undergraduate Student
Abstract
In Indonesia, there are studies that focus on the intertextuality of newspapers and
novels, but little is known about the impacts of intertextuality on students. The
purpose of this study is to investigate intertextuality practices of an Indonesian
undergraduate student. Narrative study is used in this study to explore an Indonesian
undergraduate student’s intertextuality practices. Data were collected from semistructured
interviews for three times, the first interview was conducted through
offline while the second and third were conducted through online. In addition, the
data analysis was conducted with thematic analysis, which was being used to
identify themes. The findings showed that it is possible for someone to practice
intertextuality because he/she has developed his/her reading habit beforehand and
he/she tries to find and understand the connection of texts with its aspects, other
texts, discourses, and real-life settings. Furthermore, this study gives an empirical
contribution of how an undergraduate student practices his/her intertextuality for
academic and non-academic purposes because this study explored intertextuality
practices of an Indonesian undergraduate student that he had done up until now.