Lingua
Vol 19 No 1 (2023): Lingua: jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa

INCREASING INTEREST IN READING IN ESTABLISHING A CRITICAL AND TOLERANT MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY READING CULTURE

Asep Saepurokhman (Faculty of Teaching and Education, Sebelas April University Sumedang)
Riki Nasrullah (Faculty of Cultural Science Universitas Padjadjaran Bandung)
Arip Budiman (Faculty of Teaching and Education, Sebelas April University Sumedang)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Jun 2023

Abstract

This study aims to provide a discourse on the importance of increasing reading interest in forming a critical and tolerant multicultural society reading culture. These research studies are literature from various sources that discuss reading interest, reading culture, and its relationship with a multicultural society. The study results that have been carried out show that reading activities can broaden the horizons and horizons of human thinking so that they are not left behind by the rapid development of the times. Everyone must be encouraged to have high interest, activity, and reading habits. Low interest, hobbies, activities, and reading habits can be factors for the decline in the level of progress of a nation. Intolerance, feeling the most correct, the best, and not wanting to respect the opinions, behaviors, and cultures can arise because of low insight, intelligence, and thinking horizons. Therefore, to create a multicultural society that is critical, tolerant, open, and pluralistic, it is necessary to have high reading activities, habits, and culture. This needs to be realized because a high reading tradition can support the acceleration of people's intelligence in responding to various life problems in a nation

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Journal Info

Abbrev

Lingua

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Journal Lingua is focused on publishing the original research articles, review articles from contributors, and the current issues related to language and linguistics. The main objective of Lingua is to provide a platform for the international scholars, academicians, and researchers to share the ...