The Influence of The Implementation of School Literacy Movement (SLM) on Students’ Reading Interest In Elementary School

Abstract

Abstarct. This study discusses the influence of the implementation of school literacy movement on the reading interest of students in SD Inpres Unggulan BTN Pemda Kota Makassar. This study aims to describe the implementation of SLM in elementary school, to find out the overview of elementary students' interest in reading, to find out the influence of SLM application on elementary students' reading interest. This research approach is quantitative with the type of Ex-post facto research. The population in this study was 62 students while the sample was the entire population. The instrument used in this study was questionnaire. The analysis techniques used were descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistical analysis. The results showed the influence of the school literacy movement (SLM) on students' reading interest. Based on the results of data analysis using descriptive statistics for the school literacy movement (SLM) variable, the average value of 60.85 is in the moderate category with the lowest questionnaire score 50 and the highest score 69. In the variable of students' reading interest, an average score of 81.11 is in the moderate category with the lowest test score 50 and the highest score 96. The results of inferential statistical analysis (Simple Linear Regression Analysis) obtained Fcount> Ftable (118.022> 4.00). Thus it can be concluded that there is an influence of the school literacy movement (SLM) on students’ reading interest in SD Inpres Unggulan BTN Pemda Kota Makassar.