Designing Big Book as Media for Learning English Vocabulary
Susanti, Amrin Saragih, Anni Holila Pulungan
State university of Medan
Abstract
This study aims to produce English learning media for elementary school students in the form of Big Book as a medium of learning English vocabulary for fourth grade students and determine the feasibility of the media produced based on the assessment of material experts, media experts, design experts, and student responses to produce media valid, effective, responsive, interesting, and fun. This type of research is research and development (R&D). This research is carried out in four stages, namely: the stage of data collection, the planning stage, the development stage, and the validation and trial phase. The subjects of this study were 22 fourth grade elementary school students at 028068 Public Elementary School in East Binjai District in the academic year 2018/2019. Data collection instruments using performance, observation, interviews, questionnaires, and documentation. The data analysis technique used in this study is a qualitative and quantitative descriptive analysis technique. The level of eligibility of this media based on the assessment of material experts obtained a percentage of 90.00% included in the excellent category, language eligibility experts obtained a percentage of 90.00% included in the excellent category, design experts obtained a percentage of 98.50%, included in the excellent category, Student responses conducted through the test reached a mean value of 95.00. The assessment results show that Big Book as a medium for learning English vocabulary is very suitable for use in learning English vocabulary for 4th grade students.
Keywords: Big Book Development, Context Class, Vocabulary
Topic: Curriculum, Research and Development