Implementation of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach in teaching English to kindergarten: A case study at year two of TKA plus Darul Ulum Majalaya Bandung

This research aims at: (1) knowing the effectiveness of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach in developing students' achievement (2) revealing students' responses toward learning English by using Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach (3) finding out the effectiveness of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach in developing students' motivation in learning English. The research used qualitative study implementing case study method. To collect the data writer used (1) observation (2) interview (3) Questionnaire (4) documentary study. To implement Contextual Teaching and (CTL) approach, lesson plan designed for eight meeting @ 60 minutes for each topic: Introduction, Alphabet, Part of body, Fruits, Animals, Color, Let us sing, and daily activities. This research explored students' responses, achievement, and their motivation in learning English by CTL usage. It was conducted at TKA Plus Darul Ulum Majalaya Year Two of odd semester that consist of nine unique students. This research found some findings (1) implementation of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach usually related to students' empiric world, it made students highly participate, and create fun learning environment, which makes students enjoy (2) there were more of positive response that was given by students (3) concrete material, joyful learning activities and repetition develops students' achievement, because it was difficult for them to memorize the vocabulary in abstract concept. (4) The variety of medium, activities, and joyful learning developed students' motivation to learn, because they only learned all of interesting thing, and it made them anxious to present next meeting waiting for new surprise. As the conclusion, CTL is effective to be implemented to kindergarten students. Students gave positive responses, because of fun learning activities and rich classroom with various media. Furthermore, students showed good achievement and their motivation to learn English was increase. Finally, writer expected teacher to use CTL approach that will bring students to new learning situation, which is meaningful, fun, and full of challenge that will useful for their future

SOSIALISASI INOVASI MENGENAL KOSAKATA BAHASA ARAB MELAUI AUDIO VISUAL PADA GURU PENGAJIAN DESA PARUNGBANTENG PURWAKARTA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengenalkan inovasi kosakata bahasa Arab melalui audio-visual kepada guru dan untuk diterapkan kepada anak. Memahami Kosakata bahasa Arab merupakan pintu gerbang pertama untuk memahami bahasa Arab. Bagi lembaga pendidikan Anak Usia Dini yang berbasis agama Islam pengetahuan tentang kosakata bahasa Arab merupakan salah astu ciri khas yang diajarkan di lembaga tersebut, tapi metode pembelajaran untuk anak-anak berbeda dengan orang dewasa, butuh teknik dan cara yang khusus agar diterima oleh mereka. Metodologi yang digunakan yaitu metode presentasi dan pelatihan. Tahap pertama menggunakan pretest dengan memberikan soal kepada guru pengajian Desa Parung Banteng Purwakarta sebelum menggunakan media audio visual dan hasilnya adalah tercapai 85 persen dan tidak tercapainya 15 persen. Pada tahap kedua diberikan terlebih dahulu sosialisasi inovasi penggunaan media pembelajaran menggunakan media audio visual, dan hasil dari sosialisasi tersebut adalah capaian hafalan mengenal kosakata bahasa Arab pada guru 95 persen tercapai dan 5 persen tidak tercapai. Dari hasil post test yang diberikan kepada guru pengajian sebagai peserta kegiatan sosialisasi tersebut terjadi peningkatan hasil pembelajaran melalui inovasi penggunaan audio visual