Efforts To Improve Early Childhood Receptive Language Skills Through Storytelling Methods

Abstract

This research was motivated by the need for teachers for methods and media that can help improve the receptive language skills of children aged 5-6 years because of the lack of learning media for children's receptive language skills, this causes children's receptive language development to be hampered. The purpose of this study is to develop children's receptive language so that children are able to achieve the following indicators: 1) Able to answer questions, 2) Compose simple sentences, 3) Have more words to express ideas to others, 4) Able to convey back. The method used in this study is Storytelling and the media used is Pesona Bahasa media which aims to develop or convey the purpose of the story to be conveyed to students. The type of research used is Classroom Action Research through 2 Stages after doing Pre-Cycle. Each cycle is carried out at different times with the same students. Data collection instruments in the form of children's receptive language skills instruments were used in the validation process by researchers in this study. The results of using the storytelling method using Pesona Bahasa Media have proven effective in the process of developing children's receptive language. This shows that the method of storytelling using the Pesona Bahasa media is suitable for children aged 5-6 years. In the future, the author hopes that storytelling methods and language charm media can be applied as educational props that help children's language development