Regional Culture-Based Indonesian E-Books to Improve Learning Motivation and Reading Comprehension Skills: Study on Fourth Grade Elementary School Students

Abstract

Practical e-book as teaching materials is necessary to develop to comprehend learning experience due to global internet-based learning appliance. Whereas regional cultured-based of Bahasa Indonesia e-books are not being widely developed yet. This research aims to develop feasible, practical, and effective e-book of Bahasa Indonesia teaching materials with regional culture-based learning to enhance the learning motivation and reading comprehension skills of fourth grade elementary school students. This research was based on the Research and Development (R&D) Theory of Borg and Gall. The research subjects were fourth grade educators and students of 14 elementary schools located in the Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Province. Questionnaires, written tests, and structured interviews were used as data collection techniques. Instruments were validated using expert judgement, early/limited validation, and main/extended validation. Descriptive statistics and two-way ANOVA were used as data analysis. The results of this study are e-book teaching materials with: 1) the eligibility criteria based on media experts getting scores of 51 and 53 (very feasible category), then material experts getting scores of 53 and 54 (very feasible category), and by educators based on the educators’ questionnaire in the initial/limited field trial getting a score range of 105-112 (very feasible category) and the student questionnaire getting a score range of 26-44 with the very feasible category; 2) the practicality criteria based on the educators’ questionnaire in the main/expanded field trial got a score of 21 (very practical category) and the students’ questionnaire got a score of 89-111 (very practical category); and 3) the effectiveness criteria based on data analysis was a significance level of 0.000 < 0.05. The results showed that the e-book teaching materials can improve learning motivation and reading comprehension skills of fourth grade elementary school students.