READING ALOUD ACTIVITIES IN ENHANCING STUDENTS’ READING LITERACY SKILLS IN YOUNG LEARNERS’ ONLINE LEARNING

Abstract

Indonesia was placed in the 72nd of 78 in the students’ reading literacy surveyed by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. There should be numerous efforts made by related parties in education to make the students' reading literacy much better. Teachers as the agents of change can facilitate students by promoting some activities related to the reading skills in their classrooms. One of them is the reading aloud activities that can explore the students’ reading literacy skills. Thus, this study is aimed to investigate the reading aloud activities that were done in one of the elementary schools in Kabupaten Bandung Barat. It used a qualitative research design that involves 35 students and their parents from Grade 1 to Grade 3. The instruments that had been applied in collecting the data included participant observation in the WhatsApp group and the questionnaires administered to the students’ parents who had guided their children in following the learning. The results show that the students could do the reading aloud activities well, and the parents gave positive responses toward the activities. Therefore, it can be concluded that reading aloud activities can be one of the alternative ways in facilitating young learners to enhance their reading literacy skills.