BUDAYA LITERASI DI KALANGAN MAHASISWA FBS UNY

Abstract

Abstract
This study aims to describe forms of literacy culture and constraints faced by students
in carrying out activities in literacy culture. The research subjects were students of Faculty
of Languages and Arts, Yogyakarta State University. The data were collected through
observations, questionnaires, interviews, and documentation. Theye were analyzed by
the qualitative descriptive technique. The results of the study are as follows. First, the
students’ literacy culture is manifested in their reading and writing activities. Reading
activities are done because there are assignments related to the courses (60%) and because
they like reading (11%). Writing activities done because they like them are in a range of
17%-40% and those done because there are demands from the courses are 25-42%. Students
who link reading and writing activities reach 53%. Second, constraints in literacy culture
come from the students and the environment. The former are in general due to laziness,
lack of motivation, not being focused, fatigue and boredom, no writing ideas, difficulty in
composing words and sentences, and confusion, while the latter include, among others,
lack of reference in the library and references in foreign languages.
Keywords: literacy culture, reading and writing activities