Gamified Balinese Local Stories Effect As A Teaching Media Towards Young Learners’ Speaking Skill

Abstract

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari tahu efek dari gamifikasi cerita lokal Bali sebagai media belajar terhadap keterampilan berbicara Bahasa Inggris untuk pelajar usia dini. Kuasi-eksperimental dengan desain one group pre-test post-test diterapkan sebagai metode penelitian. Seluruh siswa SD Negeri 4 Kaliuntu menjadi populasi penelitian ini sedangkan sampelnya yaitu 38 siswa kelas 5 pada tahun akademik 2019/2020. Adapun 3 instrumen yang digunakan meliputi gamifikasi berdasarkan cerita lokal Bali sebagai instrumen perlakuan, tes keterampilan berbicara sebagai instrumen pretest-posttest dan rubrik penilaian berbicara. 5 dimensi keterampilan berbicara dijadikan landasan pembuatan rubrik penilaian. Pretest dan posttest diberikan kepada grup eksperimental sebanyak 6 kali secara berulang. Setelah diberikan perlakuan, skor rata-rata posttest siswa lebih tinggi (79,95) dibandingkan skor rata-rata pretest (69,97). Hasil dari paired sample t-test menunjukkan bahwa Sig (2-tailed) adalah .000 yang menunjukkan adanya efek signifikan dari penggunaan gamifikasi cerita lokal Bali sebagai media pengajaran pada keterampilan berbicara pelajar usia dini. Abstract: This study was aimed to find out the effect of g amified Balinese local stories as teaching media towards young learners’ speaking skills in English. Q uasi-experimental with o ne group pretest-posttest design was implemented as t he method of this research . All of the students of SD Negeri 4 Kaliuntu became t he population of this study , while t he sample was 38 fifth grade students in the academic year of 2019/2020. The re were three instruments in this research that included gamified Balinese local stories as the treatment instrument, speaking test as the pretest-posttest instrument, and speaking rubric . Five dimensions of speaking skills were inserted in the speaking rubric. Pretest and posttest were given to t he experimental group for six times repeatedly. After being treated, the average score of students’ posttests was higher (79.95) than the average score of pretests (69.97). Also, the result of the p aired sample t-test revealed that the value of Sig (2-tailed) is .000 which implied that there was a significant effect of gamified Balinese local stories as teaching media towards young learners ’ speaking skills.