Learning through Senses: Improving Kindergarten Students’ Speaking Skills through Multisensory Activities
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https://doi.org/10.33541/jet.v12i3.8522Keywords:
classroom action research, multisensory activities, kindergarten students, speaking skills, young learnerAbstract
Speaking skill as one of the early language development should be given the brings attention in kindergarten because it enables the children to express their ideas, emotions and social-interaction to others. In reality, many students still experienced difficulties in speaking activities due to lack of confidence, limited vocabulary and interactive learning strategies. That means, this research presented to investigate the improvement of kindergarten speaking through multisensory activities in Classroom Action Research series. This research was conducted in classroom of 19 students at one of the top kindergarten in Batam. The classroom research followed the series of Classroom Action Research (CAR), including planning action observation and reflection. Data were acquired into observation, interview and speaking assessment by rubric with three indicators (linguistic age, language control and vocabulary). The analysis of data showed that students improved their speaking performance after the implementation of multisensory learning activities and increased students' motivation, confidence and activeness during classroom interaction. In brief, multisensory learning helped the kindergarten students to develop their speaking skills.
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