The Effectiveness Of The Five Basic Abc Traditional Games In Improving Early Childhood Vocabulary At Ra Masithoh Bantar

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the ABC Five Basics game in improving vocabulary in early childhood at RA Masithoh Bantar in changes in vocabulary pretest and posttest scores. This research uses a pre-experimental design research method with a one group pretest-posttest design. The research subjects were all Raudlatul Athfal students. Data collection in this research used observation, questionnaires, interviews and documentation methods. The data collection instrument has gone through a validity assessment by an expert lecturer (expert judgment). The use of analysis in this research is in the form of simple descriptive statistics. The data analysis technique in this research uses the SPSS 16.0 application. The results of the research show that (1) The average score after the traditional five basic ABC game was implemented, namely 115.85, was higher than the average score before the traditional five basic ABC game was implemented, namely 83.70. (2) The paired t-t  est has a significance value of 0.000 (p<0.05), so H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted, which means that there is a difference in scores before and after the traditional five basic ABC game is played. (3) The correlation value of the pretest and posttest results is 0.978, which is considered high because it is almost close to 1. The significance value is 0.000, meaning that the pretest and posttest results are very significantly correlated. In other words, it means that implementing the five basic ABC traditional games can increase vocabulary in early childhood at RA Masithoh Bantar.