SIKAP RASA INGIN TAHU PADA AKTIVITAS MEMBACA MAHASISWA SELAMA PEMBELAJARAN DARING (Measurement of Curiosity in Student Reading Activity During Online Learning)

Pendidikan merupakan salah satu faktor penting yang memengaruhi kemajuan dan kualitas suatu bangsa. Oleh karena itu, pembelajaran pada masa pandemi Covid-19 harus tetap dilak-sanakan meskipun secara daring. Keberhasilan pembelajaran daring tak terlepas dari keterlibatan mahasiswa. Salah satunya ialah sikap rasa ingin tahu mahasiswa pada aktivitas membaca. Semakin tinggi rasa ingin tahu mahasiswa, semakin sering mahasiswa melakukan aktivitas membaca, begitu pula sebaliknya. Penelitian ini membahas rasa ingin tahu mahasiswa selama pembelajaran daring. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengukur sikap rasa ingin tahu pada aktivitas membaca mahasiswa selama pembelajaran daring. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan subjek penelitian sebanyak 60 mahasiswa Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman. Adapun proses pengumpulan data melalui survei kuesioner yang diperkuat dengan hasil wawancara. Kuesioner pengumpulan data dianalisis melalui expert judgement. Untuk analisis data yang digunakan adalah kuantitatif dan kualitatif berdasarkan skor pengisian angket survei kuesioner dan hasil wawancara. Hasil penelitian ini adalah sikap rasa ingin tahu mahasiswa pada aktivitas membaca selama pembelajaran daring memperoleh skor 69 dari sekor maksimal sebesar 90 dengan kategori tinggi yang ditandai melalui keaktifan, berpikir kritis, dan inisiatif. Education is one of the essential factors to improve the progress and quality of a nation so that during this COVID-19 pandemic, learning must be carried out even if it is brave. The success of bold education cannot be separated from the involvement of students, one of which is the curiosity of reading activities. The higher the student's curiosity, the more often they will do reading activities, and vice versa. This study aims to measure the attitude of curiosity in students' reading activities during bold learning. The approach used is quantitative research with a research subject of 60 students of the Indonesian Language Education Study Program, Jenderal Sudirman University. The process of collecting data through a survey was conducted with the results of interviews. Data collection questionnaires were analyzed through expert judgment. The data analysis used is quantitative and qualitative based on the scores of filling in the questionnaire survey questionnaires and interviews. The result of this study is that students' curiosity in reading activities during bold learning gets a score of 69 of maximum skor 90, with a high category which is characterized by activeness, critical thinking, and initiative.

HOTS in Reading Activities of Modules 1 to 5 Easy English for Package B

Package B uses a flexible learning principle. The learning process uses a modular learning system. Learning used the latest modules based on the 2013 Curriculum Equivalency Education. This study belongs to qualitative research. The research method is content analysis. This study attempts to analyze the incorporation of analyzing level and evaluating level in reading activities presented in Modules 1-5 Easy English for Package B by referring to Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. The research participants are three English Tutors of Package B. From 168 reading activities, there are 164 LOTS reading activities or 97% and only 4 HOTS reading activities or 3%. The detail is one analyzing reading activity in Module 3, one evaluating level reading activity in Module 1, one evaluating level reading activity in Module 2, and one evaluating level reading activity in Module 3. The knowledge dimensions found in HOTS reading activities are factual and conceptual. The details are a factual knowledge reading activity in Module 1 and three conceptual knowledge reading activities in Module 2 & 3. The result of this study is expected to benefit English tutors to improve or add supplementary materials and reading activities from other sources, the module's author to develop HOTS reading activities in the module, and further researcher to conduct research related to the effectiveness and development of reading activities.

Critical Reading for Self-Critical Writing

This study aims at exploring students’ critical reading strategies and explaining how their critical reading encounters critical writing. It is due to students were lack of confidence in their ability to challenge the arguments and evidence put forward by respected academics author. The qualitative design was established by Gay and Airasian (2012) by delivering open and closed ended questions through Google forms and analyzing corpus based on students’ proposal text. Then, it had been analyzed by using cyclical steps; reading, describing, clarifying and interpreting. Based on the data, firstly, it has been revealed that students’ critical reading strategies mostly established are making connections, contextualizing and making applications and identifying problems and creating annotations. Students were rarely to challenge author’s assumptions, translate ideas into visuals and evaluate arguments. Secondly, their reading activity also reflected their critical reading, in other words, students state their purpose of writing, define key terms, and manage references on their work. Based on this, it can be figured out that students’ critical writing were relied on superficial argument development and format-based writing which performed a shallow writing.

FPGA Implementation of Eye Movement Detection Algorithm

In this paper, we propose an simple and efficient VLSI hardware architecture is implemented for eye movement detection. For Eye movement detection reading activity Electrooculography (EOG) signal is considered. Here, for denoising the noisy EOG signal efficient FIR filter and for decomposition of denoised EOG signal an efficient Haar wavelet transform architecture is used respectively. The modified VLSI hardware architecture method detected the saccade (left movement of eye and right movement of eye) and blink efficiently. The hardware architecture of the eye movement detection algorithm functionality is verified by using Xilinx System Generator hardware co-simulation tool. The eye movement detection algorithm is implemented on the ZedBoard FPGA using Xilinx Vivado design suite.

Indeks Aktivitas Literasi Membaca Peserta Didik Dan Prestasi Akademik: Studi Korelasi Pada 34 Propinsi Di Indonesia

The Indonesian government's efforts to eradicate illiteracy deserve appreciation, but this has not been accompanied by successful efforts in building a reading culture in the community. This is in accordance with various world surveys that note the low level of literacy in Indonesia. There are several studies through quantitative studies on interest and fondness for reading in various provinces in Indonesia, and this can be used as comparison material. One of the comprehensive studies conducted by the Center for Policy Research on Education and Culture, Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Education and Culture released the Reading Literacy Activity Index (Alibaca Index) in 34 provinces in Indonesia. Seeing this data, what becomes interesting to study later is whether the reading literacy level has a correlation with the student's academic achievement variable. This is important because in the end the school/madrasah literacy movement is aimed at achieving the highest level that goes beyond the level of habituation and development, namely the level of learning. This study aims to answer the questions, 1) Is there a significant positive correlation between students' reading literacy levels and academic achievement, in 34 provinces in Indonesia? and 2) What strategies should schools/madrasahs do to increase students' reading literacy levels and at the same time increase the achievement of academic achievement? This study uses a descriptive correlational approach by collecting data through the study of documentation and interviews. The results showed that the correlation between reading activity index and academic achievement (r) was 0.766. There are several innovation ideas also described qualitatively as a result of interviews.

THE USE OF DIALOGIC READING IN READING ACTIVITY BY IMPLEMENTING CHARACTER BUILDING USING LOCAL BASED LITERATURE

Reading is considered as one of the most important skill in learning foreign language since it is used in all language skills. However, teaching reading is quite challenging. In Permata group, young learners seem not motivated in reading activity. Pre observation showed that learners were bored during the shared reading activity. Moreover there were no interaction during the activity. Therefore, it takes teacher’s creativity and innovation to teach reading. This situation led the teacher to a new way of teaching reading, the teacher implemented a new approach in teaching reading by using dialogic reading. Moreover, the literature used by the teacher was a local based short story with the theme “Save Mahakam”. This study is a qualitative study in which the data was collected by observation and questionnaire. The study found that the dialogic reading and the short story did not only make the reading activity more interesting but they also helped the teachers to shape young learners’ characters. It found that there were some characters developed through the process of reading activity, such as 1) young learners have courage to speak, 2) young learners are friendly and sociable, 3) young learners are responsible with the environment, 4) young learners love reading, 5) young learners work in a team, 6) young learners think critically.

Enhancing scientific argumentation skill through partnership comprehensive literacy

This study focuses on the use of Partnership Comprehensive Literacy (PCL) as a reading strategy to support reading in science and to explore the level of students’ Scientific argument. Partnership Comprehensive Literacy consist of 4 components that address the topic of the reading activity: the statements of the content, what I think, what the texts say, and evidence of the text. This study uses a mix method to identify and improve students’ scientific argumentation skills. The instrument used is a set of questions about electricity and magnetism. In addition, the argument level rubric instrument that contains argument components is used to analyse the level of students’ scientific arguments. The participants of this study were 40 college students consisting of 25 females and 15 males in the department of physics education taking a course in the fundamental of physics. The findings revealed that the students’ level argument was dominated by the use of Claim-Reasoning-Evidence (CRE). In addition, students evaluated that the use of PCL in reading activity as being challenging but an interesting process because they have to find the evidence in the texts to support their statements of what I think.

Reading Skill: A Key to the Development of Language Acquisition

Every human being more or less wants to express something to somebody for which one needs a language. Some expressions of poets, singers, artists, writers, social workers, leaders, politicians and philosophers are placed in printed materials - newspaper, periodicals, journal, magazines and above all books by means of language for future generations to come. Moreover, the same thing in same language can be expressed by different people in different ways in various places. Thus the scope of language gets enlarged day by day coming contact with other languages as the river gets widened running continually over years accompanied by other small drains, rivulets etc. Needless to say, unfathomable is the depth of language that cannot be measured in a single day or effort. The vast arena of language may be cultivated by the habit of constant reading which involves both speaking & listening skills. By reading one move in the world of language. One cannot acquire the use of language unless and until one is exposed to it. It is the style of language that helps the speaker to attract and win everybody’s heart. This paper examines how language skills are cultured by reading activity. It also explores possible ways of how reading skill, firstly; enriches the readers with profound vocabulary, secondly; enables them to use language with clarity, accuracy and fluency, and last but not the least; makes the speakers well communicative, interactive, and economic in effective use of language. Lack of language creates a communication gap and this small gap invites a massive misunderstanding which very often spoils unity, integrity, brotherhood among the users, and after all makes human beings dumb and dull.

Exploring the EFL Students’ Reading Strategies Used on Reading Academic Articles

Reading activity is one of the essential skills for English language learners. Therefore, the use of reading strategies as one of the reading process rules should be considered. In considering the importance of reading strategies, this present study is intended to explore the reading strategies utilized by third-year EFL students on reading academic articles. To answer the research question, writers adopted the reading strategies questionnaire proposed by Oxford (1990). There were 21 statements and 31 samples involved in this present study. The significance of this study showed that meta-cognitive techniques were most frequently used by the students, followed by cognitive and affective, and then the less frequently used is social strategies. According to this finding, reading strategies should be noticed and taken as one of the considerations by lecturers and students to improve the EFL students’ comprehension of reading academic articles.