Sociocultural Intervention Strategy for Primary Literacy Teaching

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200325.113How to use a DOI?

Keywords

culture, formal education, intervention, literacy, socio-cultural

Abstract

Currently Indonesia ranks low in literacy culture, especially reading and writing. This means that the education system in Indonesia has not been able to create a culture of literacy among learners. In addition, communities and families have not become a model for their children in conducting various literacy activities. This study involved 187 parents and 251 elementary school teachers in ten districts/cities of West Java. The two-year study shows that parents rely heavily on schools or teachers to guide children in literacy activities. They feel that school assistance is indispensable when children have reading difficulty. Therefore, parents recognize that communication with teachers is essential to know and understand the development of their children’s literacy. In fact, parents need to improve their language and literacy skills but they only show interest in getting the training but are not willing to follow it due to various factors, including time and cost. On the other hand, the time that teachers provide to encourage students to develop their literacy skills is lacking. In some cases, they need to improve their teaching performance by learning from literacy experts. Based on the findings, it is indeed necessary to encourage parents and teachers to improve literacy skills of schoolchildren by the socio-cultural collaboration to get rid of mismatch between home and school literacy cultures.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Riswanda Setiadi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/31
TI  - Sociocultural Intervention Strategy for Primary Literacy Teaching
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 369
EP  - 372
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200325.113
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.113
ID  - Setiadi2020
ER  -