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.