A Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Elementary School Students’ Perceptions of Criteria of Bilingual Children Storybook

Ni Kadek Heny Sayukti

2017

Abstract

Indonesian poet and activist, Taufiq Ismail has dubbed the recent literacy development in Indonesian for having Tragedi Nol Buku (the null book tragedy). This refers to the fact that mostly Indonesian students might not read any single book for a year. For this reason, the current curriculum has started to promote the National Literacy Movement at schools. Regarding the phenomenon, the study aims to describe 1) the perceptions of elementary school students of the interest and usefulness of English story reading and 2) comparison between rural and urban elementary students’ perceptions about character values and criteria of the bilingual storybook for literary reading activity. The research design involved a mixed method design of qualitative data and quantitative data. Validated Likert-scale questionnaires were administered to 146 elementary EFL (English as Foreign Language) students in an urban area and a rural area of West Java, Indonesia. Qualitative data from the guided interview were transcribed through coding sheet. The questionnaire and interview were developed based on the criteria in the previous study by Dewi et al. (2016) and adapted from several scholars, Smallwood (1988) Whiteshide (2007) and Steinbeck (2008). The frequency counts and percentages were constructed through descriptive statistics. The findings revealed valuable information about elementary students’ interest in the English story reading and criteria of a bilingual storybook for literary activity. Both elementary students from the urban and rural area had positive perceptions on the integration of character values into the bilingual children storybook.

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Sayukti N. (2017). A Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Elementary School Students’ Perceptions of Criteria of Bilingual Children Storybook.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 284-289. DOI: 10.5220/0007166002840289


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@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Ni Kadek Heny Sayukti},
title={A Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Elementary School Students’ Perceptions of Criteria of Bilingual Children Storybook},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={284-289},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007166002840289},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - A Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Elementary School Students’ Perceptions of Criteria of Bilingual Children Storybook
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Sayukti N.
PY - 2017
SP - 284
EP - 289
DO - 10.5220/0007166002840289