Indonesian language learning has four components of language skills that must be mastered by student. These four components exist in every Indonesian language learning competency standard. According to Tarigan (2008:1), the four components are listening skills, speaking skills, writing skills and reading skills. As stated by Dawson in Tarigan (2008:1), the four skills are basically a single-chess that is interested.
Reading is one of the important ability which must be studied by students besides listening, speaking and writing for almost all levels school in Indonesia. Reading is a basic ability to stimulate literacy and accumulate the knowledge. One goal of reading is to understand and comprehend the materials. However reading learning does not go well. There are various factor causing the low interest of reading among Indonesia students.
First of all, today students are generation who prefer everything instantly. This s due to their intensive use of technology since their childhood. They play, entertain, communicate and shop through technology. There is nothing wrong with this, actually, but knowledge must be used wisely. To have everything instantly causes today's student to see information from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media because the information is short and can be easily taken. As a result is that they do not like long text and do not value the reading materials.
The second factor is the lack of family support. Surely every Indonesian would love reading and make it become a habit. Family is the first place for children to teach and love reading skills since their childhood.
The third factor is the domination of oral tradition. Most of us prefer to speak than to write and read, and it causes us have no opportunity to read.
The fourth factor is unsupportive environment. Most Indonesian grew up in an environment that have no habit and opportunity to read. When the writer was in elementary school, the writer still remember that the school had started their own library when the writer was in fifth grade. That means that the students before never had books to read except textbooks and at the time, school only focused on learning materials according to curriculum and did not spent time to read.
Additionally, there are assumption that reading is the finishing for school paper. Most of students search the materials necessary to finish their homework. The students read just minimally-without the interest. After finishing the homework, reading stops and they will choose to play.
The discussion above explain that there are various causes the low interest in learning reading. To increase the interest learning reading, Indonesian students must be supported by improving literacy knowledge, because reading is very important for our future. In this situation, the families and social life can be the motivators to improve the knowledge of reading.
References :
Afrom. 2013. Studi tentang Factor Penyebab Rendahnya Kemampuan Membaca. Anterior Jurnal, 13 (1), 122-131.
Tarigan, Henry Guntur. 2008. Membaca sebagai Suatu Keterampilan Berbahasa. Bandung: Angkasa.
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