Tsunami and Earthquake Symbols and Signs on the Children's Semiotic Understanding

11th Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Recovery

Moriyanti^1 ; Ismail, N.M.^2 ; Yanti, F.^3 ; Rahma, E.A.^4 ; Setyana, R.^5

Study Program of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Iskandarmuda University, Surien, Banda Aceh

23234, Indonesia^1

English Department, Syiah Kuala University, Darussalam, Banda Aceh

23111, Indonesia^2

Life Science Management Department, HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences, Berlin

10318, Germany^3

Faculty of Fisheries and Marine, Teuku Umar University, Meulaboh

23615, Indonesia^4

Economics Management Department, Faculty of Economics, Teuku Umar University, Meulaboh

23615, Indonesia^5

关键词: Back-ground knowledge;    Banda Aceh;    Coastal area;    Disaster preparedness;    Open-ended questions;    Qualitative research;    the study of signs;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/273/1/012034/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/273/1/012034

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This qualitative research aims at describing the coastal children's knowledge and perspective about the Tsunami and earthquake's symbols and signs. The use and purpose of the signs on the warning board is very important for children on the coastal area as an understanding of disaster preparedness. Consequently, the researchers chose 43 respondents with 8-13 years old who live at the coast of Kampung Jawa, Banda Aceh to respond questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire set contained the verbal and non-verbal symbols and signs about tsunami and earthquake which was formulated in the form open-ended questions. It was found that only 12 children who could answer 80% of the questions correctly from the questionnaire. This implies that their understanding and background knowledge about the tsunami and earthquake's symbols and signs are very low level even though the symbols and signs are put on their enviroment. Moreover, during interview process, children had wrong interpretation about the signs and symbols and did not know the function because they never get information about the symbols, the way to evacuate and preparation before the disaster happened from their school and enviroment. Consequently, it is suggested that stakeholder should conduct practices for disaster education that can improve their disaster awareness.