characters. It is also necessary to ensure that the textbooks or learning materials do not reflect any form of stereotyping in designing the model texts, particularly
in selection of speech functions by the ethnically visible characters in the textbooks or the learning materials.
2. To the Junior High School Teachers
It is suggested to the teachers of the junior high school who use the textbooks which implements the multicultural elements to carefully introduce and
present the depiction of the ethnic characters in front of the learners, considering the growing diversity within the schools and classrooms. There needs to be
considerations in using the materials so that the learners can learn to respect the diversity and not to associate any ethnic characters with certain representation,
especially when the model texts implies the possibility of stereotyping or indicates inequities between the ethnic characters.
3. To the Ministry of Education and Culture
The Ministry of Education and Culture should take into account, not only the aspect of diversity in the multicultural curriculum, but also some factors
in the implementation of the curriculum which cannot be separated from this aspect such as the language which the diversity is presented and associated with.
Also considering the history of ethnicity in Indonesia as referred to in chapter 2 the Literature Review, the researcher suggests that the Ministry of Education and
Culture introduce more characters, particularly the ethnic Chinese who until today
still experience some form of discrimination in the society.
4. To Other Researchers of Related Fields
As this research focuses only on the speech functions and markedness in mood realizations, future researchers are encouraged to deepen the study by
exploring the aspect of the language beyond the clause such as analyzing the metaphoric realization of the speech functions or considering another aspect
associated with the representation of multi-ethnicity such as the visual representation of the ethnic characters. It is also recommended that other
researchers enrich the study by focusing inward to a specific analysis of certain speech functions, or outward by comparing this government-endorsed textbook to
other textbooks in terms of their incorporation of multi-ethnicity.
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