Sociocultural-Based Reflective Picture Storybook: Urgency in Social Skill Development

This research was aimed at finding out elementary school students’ social skill mastery and analyzing the needs of a sociocultural-based reflective picture storybook for the students’ social skill development. This research used the survey method. The research participants were grade IV elementary school teachers and students in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta. The data were collected through interview, observation, survey, and literature review. The results show that students’ social skill is not yet good. The students’ social skill has to be improved in a peer relationship, self-control, academic demand, and assertive behavior dimensions. In terms of social skills, as many as 87.70% respondents of the research are in the Moderate category, 10.66% of respondents are in the low category, and only 1.64% of them belong to the good category. These results indicate that the students' social skills still need to be developed. The result also reveals the needs of interesting learning media capable of increasing students’ social skill. The students are interested in storybooks with pictures because stories have the ability to influence children’s emotional aspect through behavioral model shown by the characters in the stories. Therefore, sociocultural-based reflective picture storybooks are potential media to develop students’ social skill. Keywords—sociocultural-based reflective picture storybook, social skill, sociocultural