Strategy for Development of Reading and Writing Habit by Job Groups Approaching in Kayubulan Village, Limboto, Gorontalo Regency

Abstract

Abstract-Literacy education is an action of personal development for anybody especially those who are illiterate. Yet the fact shows that there are problems about the ability of reading and writing of the people who had the literacy program, such as (1) disability of the participants to use the literacy skill on work, (2) the participants might be disable in using their literacy skill because of the lack of using it, and (3) the graduated participants are not able to read and write fluently yet. In order to resolve these problems, there will be needed a strategy to maintain the social competence of the literacy program on participants. One of efforts can be done is a development of reading and writing habit through habituation and improvisation the ability of reading, the ability of understanding the content of the books, and the ability of explaining ideas and opinions through handwriting. This effort is done by grouping of the participants' job approaching. The aim of the research is to obtain an overview about the development of reading and writing habit after taking literacy program by grouping of job approaching. The methods used in this research are descriptive method and action research. The object of the research are groups of job consist of (i) farmers 10 people, (ii) merchants 7 people, and (iii) fishermen 8 people. Each of the groups is prepared with modules and texts (next will be called 'books') consist of information related to their job. The strategy is started with classifying the group and then giving the books. The measured competence includes: (i) the development of the reading and writing habit, (ii) the ability to understand the content of the books, and (iii) the ability to explain the idea and opinions through handwriting. This activity is done during 3 (three) months and observed weekly through discussion with the participants. Evaluation of activity of participants competence development is done monthly with the last evaluation is in the end of the third month. The results show that about 60% participants are motivated and have ability in reading and understanding the main idea of the books. However, the ability of explaining ideas and opinions through a handwriting text is between 55% -60%.