Applying Role-Play Method in Enhancing Social Intelligence of Early Childhood Learners

DOI

10.2991/icetep-18.2019.67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

role play; social intelligence

Abstract

Teachers at the kindergarten schools often use motonous teaching methods resulting in student’s poor motivation in learning processes. It is expected that the teachers use various teaching strategy in or der to improve not only the students interest in learning but also their social awareness. This research aims to enhance social intelligence of young learners using role play method at Kindergarten school (PAUD). The subject of this study was young children covering 14 young learners with the age range from 5 to 6 years old who go schooling at the school of Negeri Pembina 1 in Bengkulu city, object of the study social intelligence. In the study, Classroom Action Research (CAR) was implemented through two cycles where three meetings were conducted in each cycles. The results of this study show that there was a high development of the learners’ intelligence on social abilities which were affected by the implementation of motion games role play. The calculation result of every aspects concerned proved the increase at every class meetings. The increase of the learners’ social ability was shown by the calculation result of t. test where the increase of learners’ social ability was from -34.2143 to -41.4286. The conclusion of the study proved that the implementation of motion games role play increased the learners’ ability in social intelligence among the young learners.

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© 2019, 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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AU  - Indrawati Indrawati
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TI  - Applying Role-Play Method in Enhancing Social Intelligence of Early Childhood Learners
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Sciences and Teacher Profession (ICETeP 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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