Abstract:
The main task of education is to facilitate students to be able to face their future critically and
creatively. For this reason, schools should provide a variety of literacy competencies that are
needed by students in order to face the increasingly complex challenges of life now and in the
future. Of the many subjects given at school, language subjects, especially reading literacy
material, are most responsible for being able to equip students' literacy competencies. This
study describes: (a) the level of critical literacy competency of junior high school students
living in the riverbanks in Banjarmasin City; (b) the implementation of critical literacy
learning towards students at SMPN who live in river areas in the city of Banjarmasin; and (c)
the availability of library resources to support the improvement of critical literacy of students
in schools living in river areas in Banjarmasin. This research includes a combination of
quantitative and qualitative research. The determination of the sample of this study used
stratified random sampling technique. The data source of this study were students and teachers
who came from seven public high schools in the riverbanks in Banjarmasin City. Data
collection techniques are done through tests and non tests. Quantitative data were analyzed
using the SPSS program and qualitative data were analyzed by text analysis techniques. The
results of the study show: the critical literacy reading competence of Banjarmasin students is
low because the learning approaches used in the learning process of reading do not all lead to
the implementation of a scientific approach emphasize active students. In addition, critical
literacy learning materials are still focused on understanding the structure and content of the
text and have not touched on a critical review of the text and the implications of the contents
of the text for the purpose of community life, especially related to life on the riverbanks, and there are not adequate literature sources available to support critical literacy learning.
Keywords: competence, literacy, literature..
