Psycholinguistic study on Language Disorder of A Dyslexic in the main character on Bad Movie

ABSTRACT

Generally, dyslexia is familiar in psycholinguistics; dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. This study is aimed at finding the types of dyslexic difficulties and the method used to overcome the dyslexic in Bad movie.

This study is descriptive qualitative since the data were collected, analyzed, and described in the form of words rather than numerical statistics. This study use Levinson theories to analyze the data that related to language disorder and use Analysis Glass theory to analyze the method which is used by Ms. Linda to overcome John’s learning difficulties. The data of this study are in the forms of the movie and from script of movie. The data are in the form of word, sentence or utterance used by main characters in Bad movie. This study is designed to identify types of language difficulties and to describe the Analysis Glass method that applied in Bad movie.

To analyze data, the researcher select the data that are about language disorder that include reading and writing disorder/difficulty, and analyze the data using Levinson theories to analyze the data related to language disorder and use Analysis Glass theory to analyze the method which is applied in Bad movie to overcome John as the dyslexic.

The result shows that the dyslexic character in Bad movie, John, experienced two types of dyslexia that are reading dyslexia and writing dyslexia. In his reading and writing, John does not apply visual and auditory ability, so that he cannot balance the uses of visual and auditory ability. In addition, Ms. Linda Read had applied methods of Analysis Glass method (decoding, write words in a card, make letters in the form of pictures, and presents words completely) and she gave John some variants of subs medium in teaching to overcome the difficulties. Then John can read and write like normal children.