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The Roles of Parents in Enhancing Student’s Reading Motivation:
A Study in Kaliaman IV Elementary School Jepara

Novita Wijanarti
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Abstract
This study aims to find out what parents roles to encourage their children to read and
because of their education, economic backgrounds, parents’ perceptions, parents behavior, and
reading habit influence their participation in their children reading activity. The participants of
this study were one hundred and twenty seven parents from a State Elementary school in Jepara.
There were seventeen question of questionnaire. They were asked to fill in 17 questionnaire
items related to their backgrounds, their beliefs about reading, their behaviors, and the
availability of books in their area. Through descriptive analysis, it is signified that parents from
any backgrounds perceived that they need to help their children to read. However, parents from
low education level and low socio-economic status seemed to be less involved in motivating their
children to read books. The findings implied that parents from different backgrounds have
different contribution in introducing reading to their children and parent from early grade were
more involved in enhancing their children’s reading activity than parents from older grade.
Key words: Parents; Children’s Literacy, Reading Book, Elementary school