Developing a Set of Song and Game-Based English Learning Tasks for Kindergarten Students

Abstract

The aim of this research is to develop a set of song and game-based English learning tasks for kindergarten. The learning materials and the activities were developed based on the result of the need survey. The materials were based on song lyrics and the game’s rules. This research was classified into Research and Development. The subjects were the children of class B of TK Dharma Bakti II Yogyakarta. The procedure in this research was as follow: collecting data and information through a need analysis, planning, writing the course grid, developing the materials, evaluating the first draft, revising and writing the final draft of the materials. The instruments of this research were observation, interview guidelines, and questionnaires. The data from the interview and the observation were analyzed qualitatively and the data from the questionnaires were analyzed quantitatively through the descriptive statistics. The respondents of the research were 10 people consisted of a lecturer of English education department, English teacher, students of English education department, and fresh graduate from English education department. After conducting the need analysis, it can be seen that the children’s needs and the teacher’s needs were about the appropriate English learning materials. The materials developed with the song and game were interesting and motivating the children learning English. There were two products of this research. They were: a course grid and a set of song and game-based English learning tasks for kindergarten-the teacher’s guide book. The teacher’s guide book consisted of three units with different themes. The themes are: greeting, the parts of the body and the family members. Each unit has 6-7 activities. The PPP methods were used to present the activities. The first stage was “Let’s Start“ as warming-up activity in presentation stage, “Let’s Practice” as practice stage, “Let’s Do It” as production stage and the last activity was  “Review” as closing activity. From the result of the expert judgment shows that a set of song and game-based English learning tasks for kindergarten-the teacher’s guide book is categorized as very good as the mean scores was 3, 29. Thus, it can be concluded that a set of song and game-based English learning tasks for kindergarten-the teacher’s guide book was appropriate for the children and the teacher.