Literature-Based Environmental Literacy for Middle School Students' Understanding of Local Ecology in East Java

¹ Indonesian Language and Literature Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Islam Malang, 65144 Malang, Indonesia
² Biology Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Islam Malang, 65144 Malang, Indonesia
³ English Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Islam Malang, 65144 Malang, Indonesia
⁴ Department of Malay Language, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communcation, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

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Abstract

This study aims to analyze the relationship between ecological knowledge, ecological attitudes, ecological behavior, and students' literary engagement in the context of environmental literary literacy. Through path analysis and construct correlation, it was found that ecological knowledge has a positive effect on ecological attitudes (ß = 0.406) and ecological behavior (r = 0.8294), indicating that conceptual understanding can encourage pro-environmental actions. Ecological attitudes also influence behavior (ß = 0.441) and literary engagement (ß = 0.399), confirming the reciprocal relationship between environmental awareness, actions, and literary expressions. The Goodness of Fit value shows a strong predictive ability of the model (Q² = 0.750), indicating that the integration of knowledge and literary literacy plays an important role in building sustainable ecological behavior. These results confirm that environmentalbased literature learning can be an effective strategy to foster students' ecological awareness holistically.