Tujuan umum kegiatan ini adalah 1) Mahasiswa memperoleh pengalaman belajar dalam masyarakat yang secara langsung menemukan, merumuskan, memecahkan, dan menanggulangi permasalahan yang terdapat di lapangan; 2) Mahasiswa dapat memberikan pemikiran dalam menumbuhkan dan mempercepat gerak dalam menyiapkan kader di masa depan; 3) Mahasiswa bisa menjadi lebih kompeten dalam menyikapi permasalahan yang dihadapi masyarakat Lokasi sasaran dalam kegiatan ini adalah Desa Dunggala yang berlokasi di Kabupaten Bone Bolango. Jumlah mahasiswa dalam kegiatan ini adalah 30 orang berasal dari Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris. Luaran yang dihasilkan dari KKN ini adalah: 1)Manual book/ panduan aplikasi :a). Penjualan online (website bilingual); b). Desain grafis (Corel Draw dan Photoshop); c).Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel); Artikel ilmiah hasil pelaksanaan kegiatan akan diterbitkan pada jurnal Pengabdian nasional ber ISSN/Prosiding.

The current condition exposes the degradation of number of speakers even the use of Gorontalo language. It is proved by the data which show that almost 40% of respondents cannot speak Gorontalo language actively. As a consequence, the maintenance of Gorontalo language is a must to prevent this phenomenon to be worse. One of the effective ways to maintain Gorontalo language is teaching the Gorontalo language through the local content at elementary schools. Moreover, the teaching process should involve cultural and linguistic aspects of the language.

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This paper analyzes the collective memories and social changes in communities that have been living around Limboto Lake. This lake, which has been praised by the ancestors of the people of Gorontalo, has turned into a catastrophic lake. This change is intimately related to changes in ways of thinking and the social conditions of the communities around the lake. These social changes are not only due to natural changes and disasters, but also the political, social, and economic situation. Furthermore, the community’s attachment to their collective memory, which has been preserved through tradition and oral narrative, has been slowly disappearing. This study uses an ethnographic method to trace the collective memories of this society. Moreover, this paper utilizes the concept of oral tradition as history.