PENERAPAN SASTRA ANAK DALAM PENINGKATAN LITERASI SISWA SD KELAS 1

Abstrak Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh rendahnya minat baca masyarakat Indonesia terutama pada tingkat sekolah dasar. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah terdapat perbedaan peningkatan literasi siswa antara kelas eksperimen dengan kelas kontrol serta untuk mengetahui seberapa besar perbedaan peningkatan literasinya. Penelitian ini dilakukan di SDN 15 Sungailiat dengan sampel sebanyak 44 siswa kelas 1. Metode yang digunakan adalah kuantitatif dengan model quasi eksperimen. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah tes. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah tes uraian dengan jumlah 20 butir soal Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah uji-t. Hasil dari penelitian yaitu terdapat perbedaan peningkatan literasi kelas eksperimen dengan kelas kontrol, dengan signifikansi data p<0,05; dan uji t dari kelas eksperimen dan kelas kontrol memiliki perbedaan sebesar 3.070. Serta kenaikan literasi antara kelas eksperimen yang menggunakan sastra anak dan kelas kontrol yang menggunakan model konvensional terdapat perbedaan sebesar 17,3%. Hasil penelitian ini diharapkan dapat membantu siswa dalam meningkatkan literasi anak. Abstract This research is motivated by the low interest in reading Indonesian people, especially at the elementary school level. This study aims to determine whether there is a difference in the increase in student literacy between the experimental class and the control class and to find out how big the difference in the increase in literacy is. This research was conducted at SDN 15 Sungailiat with a sample of 44 first grade students. The method used was quantitative with a quasi-experimental model. The data collection technique used is a test. The instrument used is a description test with a total of 20 items. The data analysis technique used is the t-test. The results of the study are that there are differences in the increase in literacy between the experimental class and the control class, with a data significance of p<0.05; and the t test of the experimental class and the control class has a difference of 3,070. As well as the increase in literacy between the experimental class using children's literature and the control class using the conventional model, there is a difference of 17.3%. The results of this study are expected to help students in improving children's literacy.

Asian Immigrant Communities' Civic Participation in Cultivating Bilingualism and Biliteracy in the United States

This chapter discusses how Asian immigrant communities in the United States cultivate Asian immigrant children's literacy learning in their heritage languages. Although the United States has historically been a linguistically diverse country, bilingualism has not always been valued and acknowledged. Strong social and institutional expectations for immigrants to acquire the socially dominant language have resulted in language shifts among immigrants. Concerned about their descendants' heritage language loss, Asian immigrant communities make organized efforts to establish community-based heritage language schools. Heritage language schools play an important role in immigrant children's learning of their heritage language and culturally appropriate ways of behaving and communicating. It has also been noted that heritage language schools encounter several challenges in motivating heritage language learners. Heritage language schools should be considered as complementary education for immigrant students because they take critical responsibilities to support immigrant students' language and literacy development in their heritage languages.

My Writing: An E-LEA-Based Android Application to Develop Kindergarten Children's Early Literacy

My Writing is a tool that preschool children can use to improve their reading and writing skills, which can be used both at school and at home. This tool was developed based on the Language Experience Approach (LEA) and is in the form of an Android application designed for children. It is used to help children understand that the spoken language can be altered into the written one and still retains its meaning. 10 teachers were included in this study and data were collected from teacher opinions and assessments. The findings showed that My Writing is an effective application for developing literacy in young children, and that it is easy to use by children and parents, making it simple for teachers to assess children’s literacy skills while they study at home. Keywords: Language Experience Approach (LEA), Digital LEA, E-LEA, My Writing, early reading and writing

Alfabetização e Educação Literária: Contrastando Duas Formas de Mediação de Livros Literários na Escola

Resumo O foco deste texto, recorte de uma pesquisa mais ampla sobre alfabetização de crianças, é a educação literária no contexto escolar. O objetivo é abordar como duas docentes, colaboradoras da pesquisa e atuantes em uma turma de 2º ano da Rede Municipal de Recife, conduziram as mediações durante a leitura de livros literários, além de evidenciar e compreender as diferenças e semelhanças nessas mediações, revelando o processo de escolarização da literatura. Metodologicamente, trabalham-se com técnicas e ferramentas etnográficas, incluindo a observação participante e entrevistas; a categoria de análise central é o evento. Argumenta-se que as interações com o livro literário, mediadas por professores, precisam ocupar um lugar de destaque nos processos de alfabetização. Os resultados obtidos indicam que, nessa turma, esses ocuparam esse lugar, mas também apontam contrastes entre as formas de mediação do texto literário, que podem resultar em aprendizagens também diferentes para as crianças; além disso, deixam claro o processo inevitável de escolarização da literatura, com as marcas da cultura escolar, próprias do trabalho pedagógico com a alfabetização. Palavras-chave: Leitura. Literatura na escola. Etnografia. AbstractThe focus of this text, part of a broader research on children's literacy, is literary education in the school context. The objective is to address how two teachers, research collaborators and working in a 2nd year class, from the Municipal Network of Recife, conducted mediations while reading literary books, in addition to highlighting and understanding the differences and similarities in these mediations, revealing the literature schooling process. Methodologically, it is worked with ethnographic techniques and tools, including participant observation and interviews; the central analysis category of this study is the event. It is argued that interactions with the literary book, mediated by teachers, need to occupy a prominent place in literacy processes. The results obtained indicate that, in this class, they occupied this place, but also point out contrasts among the forms of the literary text mediation, which can result in different learning for children; in addition, they make clear the inevitable schooling literature process, with the marks of school culture, typical of pedagogical work with literacy. Keywords: Reading. School Literature. Ethnography.

Nurturing the reading brain: home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills

Previous studies indicate that children are exposed to different literacy experiences at home. Although these disparities have been shown to affect children’s literacy skills, it remains unclear whether and how home literacy practices influence brain activity underlying word-level reading. In the present study, we asked parents of French children from various socioeconomic backgrounds (n = 66; 8.46 ± 0.36 years, range 7.52–9.22; 20 girls) to report the frequency of home literacy practices. Neural adaptation to the repetition of printed words was then measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a subset of these children (n = 44; 8.49 ± 0.33 years, range 8.02–9.14; 13 girls), thereby assessing how sensitive was the brain to the repeated presentation of these words. We found that more frequent home literacy practices were associated with enhanced word adaptation in the left posterior inferior frontal sulcus (r = 0.32). We also found that the frequency of home literacy practices was associated with children’s vocabulary skill (r = 0.25), which itself influenced the relation between home literacy practices and neural adaptation to words. Finally, none of these effects were observed in a digit adaptation task, highlighting their specificity to word recognition. These findings are consistent with a model positing that home literacy experiences may improve children’s vocabulary skill, which in turn may influence the neural mechanisms supporting word-level reading.

Early Reading Movement at Home through Read Aloud Training for Mothers

The national literacy movement must be supported by all parties and implemented comprehensively, not only at school but also at home. Literacy education should be started early from home by parents, especially mothers, because reading activities together between parents and children have been proven to be able to develop children's literacy. Therefore, this Assisted Village Service activity, which focuses on Read Aloud training for mothers, is important to carry out. The Read Aloud training is to train mothers to read children's story books, to produce a deep understanding of the importance of introducing literacy to children from an early age in October 2018. This fostered village service involves several mothers who have toddlers and other women's associations such as people's associations. PAUD parents in the Sariwangi Village area, West Java. This activity trains mothers in selecting stories for children and reading stories to and/or with children. Through this activity, it is hoped that mothers can instill literacy skills from an early age in children

The effect of classroom acoustic conditions on literacy outcomes for children in primary school: A review

Literacy skills are essential for success in today’s society. However, classrooms often have suboptimal acoustic conditions for learning. The goal of this review was to synthesize research assessing the effect of different classroom acoustic conditions on children’s literacy. A comprehensive search of four online databases was conducted in August 2021. The search term was classroom AND (noise OR reverberation OR acoustics) AND (reading OR spelling OR writing OR literacy). Eighteen papers were deemed relevant for the review plus an additional seven from their references. The types of acoustic conditions that have been assessed, the types of measures used to assess literacy, and the effect of the acoustic conditions on children’s reading, writing, and spelling outcomes are discussed. Suggestions for the classroom acoustic conditions needed to ensure appropriate literacy development and areas for future research are also considered.

EFs and Motivation Uniquely Predict Children's Academic Development in CIV

The role of executive function skills and motivation in supporting children’s academic achievement is well-documented, but the vast majority of evidence is from high-income countries. Classrooms in low- and middle-income countries tend to be large, teacher-driven, and lecture-focused, which may provide extra challenges for children to stay engaged in the learning process. Based in self-regulated learning theory, we tested the contributions of executive functions and motivation for children’s literacy and numeracy skills over one school year. Our preregistered study of 2,500 primary school students in Cote d’Ivoire used cross-lagged models with a robust set of demographic covariates. Executive functions were directly assessed and children reported on their levels of motivation for schooling. Findings indicated unique effects of executive functions and motivation for changes in children’s literacy and numeracy skills over the school year. Overall, these results provide evidence for the importance of non-academic skills for children’s learning in a low- and middle-income context. Implications include improving the quality of primary school experiences to promote opportunities to practice self-regulation skills and increase motivation for learning.