THE EFFECTIVENESS OF READ-ALOUD LEARNING METHODS WITH PICTURE STORYBOOK MEDIA TO IMPROVE RECEPTIVE AND EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE SKILLS IN EARLY CHILDREN

This study aims to conduct empirical research to determine the difference in effectiveness between the read-aloud learning method and serial image media with other methods usually used by teachers to improve receptive language skills in early childhood. This type of research uses a nonequivalent control group experimental design with a quantitative approach. The variables in this study consisted independent variable in this study is the read-aloud learning method with picture story media (X), the dependent variable in this study is expressive language ability (Y1) and expressive language ability (Y2). The results showed that (1) the read-aloud learning method with picture series media was more effective than the learning methods commonly used by teachers to improve receptive language skills in early childhood, statistically, the F = 5.766 with a significant level of p = 0.022 smaller than 5%; (2) The read-aloud learning method with serial picture story media is more effective than the learning methods commonly used by teachers to improve expressive language skills in early childhood; statistically, the value of F = 1,028 significant level p = 0.012 less than 5%. The results of this study can provide new insights and innovations in the effectiveness of learning the read-aloud method in storytelling activities that are useful for developing children's receptive and expressive language skills

PENGEMBANGAN BUKU CERITA BERGAMBAR SEBAGAI MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN

DEVELOPMENT OF PICTURE STORY BOOKS AS LEARNING MEDIA Windi [email protected] UniversityABSTRACTThe background of this research is that the level of the education unit which is considered the basis for the cultivation of knowledge is at the elemntary school. Education pursued in basic education will be the foundation for the next education process. This study aims to develop a picture book of “Batu Belah Batu Betangkup” and to find out the feasbility of the picture story book. This picture book product is made using the cup studio paint application. The research method used is the 4D model consisting of four stages, namely difine, design, development, and dessiminate. Data collection was carried out using a questionnaire, the research instrument used had gone through a validation process with a validator. The type of data generated is quantitative data which is analyzed using the assessment criteria guidelines to determine the quantity of the product. Validation results from experts state that the pictorial story book product “Batu Belah Batu Betangkup” developed by the researher is very suitable for use. Expert assessment of product design with an average percentage pf 88,91% with a very feasible category, assessment of linguists with an average percentage of 95,8% with a very decent category, and field users based on the product with an average percentage of 95,83% and language assessment with an average percentage of 95,5% in the very feasible category and the student response product frial obtained 91,5% with the very good category.

Upaya Peningkatan Kemampuan Membaca Melalui Buku Cerita Bergambar Pada Anak Usia Dini

Early reading is a unique and important skill for children’s language development, as well as a means of communication for humans. Individuals will acquire new information, knowledge and new experiences through reading. The main and fundamental problem in this study is that many children are not able to read fluently. This study is aimed at early childhood with reading delays. This study aims to determine the improvement of reading comprehension through the method of reading picture story books. The method used in this research is descriptive and qualitative methods, the data is collected through observation and documentation. Based on the results of study, it was found that there was an increase in reading comprehension with picture story books.

Finiteness marking in Russian-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment

Much crosslinguistic acquisition research explores finiteness marking in typical development and Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Research into Russian, however, has focused on typical acquisition, not SLI. This article presents a first attempt to investigate finiteness marking in monolingual Russian-speaking children with SLI. We test two competing hypotheses: the Extended Optional Infinitive (EOI) hypothesis and the morphological richness account. The former predicts a large proportion of non-finite forms in the speech of children with SLI crosslinguistically. Due to the rich morphological verbal system of Russian, the latter hypothesis predicts that finiteness marking in Russian SLI will be relatively unimpeded, except for ‘near-miss’ errors. To test these predictions, we analyzed picture-story narrative samples collected from 67 monolingual Russian-acquiring children aged 4;1 to 4;11. All samples are part of the BiSLI corpus created by Tribushinina and colleagues and publicly available through the CHILDES project. We found that, similar to both aged-matched typically developing (TD) controls (N = 24) and younger TD children (N = 23), children with SLI (N = 20) are essentially adultlike in terms of finiteness marking of verbal forms in the matrix clause. The handful of errors observed in the SLI sample involved substitutions in only one inflectional category. These findings provide support for the morphological richness hypothesis over the EOI model of Russian SLI.

EDUKASI SAINS TEKNOLOGI “PERAN NANOTEKNOLOGI DALAM KEHIDUPAN” MELALUI BUKU CERITA BERGAMBAR UNTUK ANAK USIA DINI DI INDONESIA

Scientific literacy is the main key to face challenges in the 21st century to solve problems in everyday life such as water and food, energy, disease, and climate change. Lack of understanding of 'what is nano', the foundation of various disciplines, widely used jargons, and various scientific terms that are difficult to understand, make nanotechnology difficult to be accepted by the wider community. However, this can be overcome by simplifying these complex concepts and presenting them in an interesting way. Media such as story books, infographic posters, interactive videos can be used to explain complex concepts in a simple form. Abroad, there are many story books that raise the concept of nanotechnology and present it in a simple and interesting way. Therefore, the form of picture story books for early childhood and elementary schools can be an effective delivery medium for the concept of nanotechnology.Keywords: education, early children, role of nanotechnology, story books AbstrakLiterasi sains merupakan kunci utama untuk menghadapi berbagai tantangan pada abad 21 untuk memecahkan masalah dalam kehidupan sehari-hari seperti air dan makanan, energi, penyakit, dan perubahan iklim. Hal ini juga berdampak terhadap kurangnya pengetahuan masyarakat Indonesia terhadap teknologi yang berkembang saat ini, salah satunya nanoteknologi. Kurangnya pemahaman tentang ‘apa itu nano’, fondasi dari macam-macam disiplin ilmu, jargon-jargon yang banyak dipergunakan, dan berbagai istilah ilmiah yang sulit dipahami, menyebabkan nanoteknologi sulit diterima oleh masyarakat luas. Namun, hal ini bisa diatasi dengan penyederhanaan konsep-konsep rumit ini dan menyajikannya dengan cara yang menarik. Hal ini sudah banyak dilakukan oleh bidang ilmu lain. Media seperti, buku cerita, poster infografis, video interaktif dapat digunakan untuk menjelaskan konsep rumit dalam bentuk yang sederhana. Di luar negeri sudah banyak buku cerita yang mengangkat konsep nanoteknologi dan menyajikannya secara sederhana dan menarik. Oleh karena itu, bentuk buku cerita bergambar untuk anak usia dini dan sekolah dasar dapat menjadi media penyampaian yang efektif untuk konsep nanoteknologi.Kata kunci: anak usia dini, buku cerita, peran nanoteknologi, pendidikan

Environmental and hydroponics education for children through story book design

Children are need education regarding hydroponics and environment. The problems raised in this design are to how to design the appropriate eco-friendly story book media to introduce hydroponics and environmental issues such as climate change and its impact to agriculture. The purpose of this design is to create a picture story book as an effort to introduce hydroponics to children. The research method used was descriptive qualitative method with data collection techniques of questionnaire, literature study, and interviews. The media that is considered capable of providing a solution to this problem is a picture story book that contains information about introduction to hydroponics and environment issues with simple hydroponic planting procedures for children.

A Narratologıcal Perspectıve On Death And Grıef İn Chıldren's Lıerature: “The Ghost Postman” Example

“The Ghost Postman” to be analyzed is a children's picture story book. Theadventure of a child in the process of mourning in this book, in which he accepts death by using hisimagination with the help of his mother, also carries a reference to sleep, which is the mostimportant door that opens to the subconscious. While the story was being told, the pictures werealso spoken. The subject of death, which is widely covered and general, is incomprehensible likeother abstract concepts in the world of children. Losing and mourning a loved one causes mentaltrauma, even for adults, while the loss of a parent seems more difficult for a child to understand andaccept. However, the child who looks at death from his own world, from the game window, acceptsthis fact more easily. Because he lives in a world with no borders, intertwined with dreams andreality, and he has decorated it with his dreams. In Ghost Postman, the child's exit from thismourning process is explained and made more evident with pictures. The theme of this story,written by Nurgul Atesh, is love, and it is intended to convey the message that people can overcomeall difficulties with the power of love, overcome the difficulties encountered, and turn negativitiesinto beauty by imagining.

The ulna-to-fibula ratio as a marker of organizational hormone effects on the motivational brain: A high-powered preregistered replication

Objective: We aimed at replicating findings by Köllner and Bleck (2020) regarding their proposed new marker of pubertal organizational hormone effects (OHEs), the ulna-to-fibula ratio (UFR). We tested UFR’s sex-dimorphism, independence of body height, interrelationships with other markers, and relationships to the implicit power motive (nPower) and activity inhibition (AI).Method: Our pre-registered, cross-sectional, high-powered study (N = 250; 148 women; after exclusions) included the Picture-Story Exercise (nPower, AI) and anthropometry of ulna and fibula length, facial width and height, shoulder/waist/hip circumference, and 2D:4D digit ratio.Results: UFR was sex-dimorphic (d = 0.37; outliers excluded), independent of body height, and significantly associated with other possible markers of pubertal OHEs, including facial width-to-height ratio, waist-to-hip ratio, and shoulder-to-hip ratio. As predicted, a “sex-typical” (high for men, low for women) UFR was associated with the inhibited power motive (outliers excluded). Neither nPower’s sex-dimorphic relationship with UFR, nor the sex-dimorphic relationship of the inhibited power motive with UFR asymmetry (deemed unreliable and already omitted from the preregistration) reported by Köllner and Bleck (2020) were replicated. Conclusions: Our findings bolster UFR’s status as a marker of pubertal OHEs: It is sexually dimorphic, unrelated to body height, related to other markers, and shows sex-dimorphic associations with the inhibited power motive. In conjunction with findings by Schultheiss et al. (2019) for prenatal OHEs, there is also accumulating evidence for hormonal contributions to implicit motive development.

Using Rich Narratives to Engage Students in Worthwhile Mathematics: Children’s Literature, Movies and Short Films

Using children’s literature to support mathematics instruction has been connected to positive academic outcomes and learning dispositions; however, less is known about the use of audiovisual based narrative mediums to support student mathematical learning experiences. The current exploratory, qualitative study involved teaching three lessons based on challenging, problem solving tasks to two classes of Australian Year (Grade) 5 students (10 and 11 year olds). These tasks were developed from various narratives, each portrayed through a different medium (movie clip, short film, picture story book). Post lesson interviews were undertaken with 24 students inviting them to compare and contrast this lesson sequence with their usual mathematics instruction. Drawing on a self-determination theory lens, our analysis revealed that these lessons were experienced by students as both highly enjoyable and mathematically challenging. More specifically, it was found that presenting mathematics tasks based on rich and familiar contexts and providing meaningful choices about how to approach their mathematical work supported student autonomy. In addition, there was evidence that the narrative presentation supported student understanding of the mathematics through making the tasks clearer and more accessible, whilst the audiovisual mediums (movie clip, short film) in particular provided a dynamic representation of key mathematical ideas (e.g., transformation and scale). Students indicated an eclectic range of preferences in terms of their preferred narrative mediums for exploring mathematical ideas. Our findings support the conclusion that educators and researchers focused on the benefits of teaching mathematics through picture story books consider extending their definition of narrative to encompass other mediums, such as movie clips and short films.