Factors Affecting Reading Interest of Elementary School Students

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10.2991/assehr.k.201221.004How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading interest, elementary students

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine factors affecting reading interest of fifth graders. The study applied a qualitative survey research. The data were analyzed using factor analysis. The research population was 590 students. The research sample was 238 students. The results show internal factors namely (1) physical condition, understanding of content and reading needs, (2) reading and attitude skills, (3) vision and hearing, (4) learning motivation and school work needs, (5) psychic maturity, (6) understanding and achievement, (7) body condition and curiosity, (8) body structure and habits and external factors namely (1) imitating parents, teacher attention, following peers, (2) peer invitations, cultural situations, practicing religious teachings, (3) variations of readings from teachers, rules and readiness to get religious readings and commands, (4) readiness to get readings, (5) completeness of reading and religious teachings, (6) provision of readings and availability of reading places (7) peer pressure, culture and climate environment (8) encouragement and availability of readings, association with friends, (9) reading availability, (10) parental encouragement.

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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  - Ali Mustadi
AU  - Faisal Amri
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/22
TI  - Factors Affecting Reading Interest of Elementary School Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Yogyakarta International Conference on Educational Management/Administration and Pedagogy (YICEMAP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 15
EP  - 21
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201221.004
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201221.004
ID  - Mustadi2020
ER  -