Young Learners Interest in English Stories: A case Study at Six-year Pupils of SD Islam Az Zahrah Polygon, Palembang, Indonesia

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to explore the interest and to find out the factors
influencing of six-year pupils of SD Islam Az Zahrah Polygon, Palembang in reading English
stories. There were 114 pupils registered as six-year pupils in SD Az Zahrah. They consisted of
61 boys and 53 girls and 28 of them were selected as samples by simple random sampling
technique There were four English teachers in this school, but only one teaher who taugh sixyear
class was chosen. The data was taken by a set of questionnaire for the pupils and the
teacher. Then they were analyzed descriptively. There were three major findings, namely (1) sixyear
pupils of SD Islam Az Zahrah were interested in reading English stories, and (2) there were
four factors that influence their interest in reading English stories. The first factors was from the
pupils themselves. The second factor was from their family. The third factor was from their
teacher. The last factor was from their living environment. Therefore, the result of this study are
expected to contribute something useful for the pupils related to their interest in reading
particularly in reading English stories.