Students' Attitude towards the Implementation of the School Literacy Movement

Abstract

The low interest in reading Indonesian students moves the government to issue a school literacy movement (GLS) program. GLS is a program in which one of the activities is reading non-learning books for 15 minutes before KBM starts. The purpose of this study is to find out how students' attitudes towards the implementation of GLS in Yogyakarta. This type of research is a quantitative study with survey approach, the population in this study were all students of SMA Negeri 5 Yogyakarta, the sample of this study were 205 students. Data collection techniques in this study used nontest techniques with data collection instruments in the form of measurement scales. Analysis of the data in this study uses descriptive statistical analysis aided by the Microsoft Excel program. The results obtained are the attitudes of students towards the implementation of GLS in the category of agreed attitude with the following explanation: (a) 131 students (63.90%) are in the agreed category; (b) 48 students (23.41%) are in the category of strongly agree; (c) 25 students (12.20%) were in the category of disagreeing, and (d) 1 student (0.49%) in the category of strongly disagreeing. Given the importance of this literacy activity, the researcher hopes that the school can improve the quality of its collaboration with various parties, increasing the variety of literacy activities carried out, and schools can provide comfortable reading rooms and bookshelves in each class so that students can place their literacy books and journals on these shelves.