The Effect of Multisensory Method on Children Language Development

DOI

10.2991/icei-18.2018.61How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Multisensory, Language, Kindergarten

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effect of multisensory method on language development for kindergarten students. Researchers choose a multisensory method to help 5-6 years old children in understanding early literacy. Multisensory method has the principle of teaching that involves several modalities of sense devices, including visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile. This research is included in a quantitative approach with quasi experimental research. The subjects of this research are 40 kindergarten students. Technique to obtain the data uses an observation. Data analysis technique used in this research is an independent sample t-test. The results of this research revealed that the multisensory method has a strong influence on the language of the children on the kindergarten level in Bangkalan. The language development in the experimental group shows a better result than the control group. It is expected that kindergarten teachers can utilize this method to maximize the language skills of children in kindergarten level that aged 5-6 years old.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Kurnia Oktafianto
AU  - Siti Masitoh
AU  - Hendratno Hendratno
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - The Effect of Multisensory Method on Children Language Development
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Innovation (ICEI 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 279
EP  - 282
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icei-18.2018.61
DO  - 10.2991/icei-18.2018.61
ID  - Oktafianto2018/12
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