Designing a set of English Instructional Vocabulary Materials for Pertiwi 1 Kindergarten with the use of Realia as Teaching Media

Abstract

Teaching children is different for teaching adult. Some important points should be considered in teaching English to kindergarten students. Children are not adult in a small size. They are still in the playing world and they have their own characteristics as children, therefore kindergarten teacher should realize this in order to make English lesson interesting to them through various activities with the use of realia and pictures. This thesis dealt with the designing of English instructional vocabulary materials for Pertiwi 1 Kindergarten with the use of realia as the teaching media. There were two problems in this study: (1) How is a set of English instructional vocabulary materials for Pertiwi 1 Kindergarten with the use of realia as teaching media designed? and (2) What will designed set of instructional materials look like? There were three designs model discussed. They were ADDIE model, Kemp’s model, and Robert Gagne model. It is to answer the first problem in the Problem Formulation. The stages and the diagram of those models were presented in chapter II. To answer the second problem in this study, a set of designed materials were presented. There are 6 units in the designed materials in which each unit is conducted in one meeting. Since this study is aimed at designing a set of English instructional vocabulary materials, each unit focuses on vocabulary mastery. Realia were chosen to introduce English vocabulary to kindergarten students, since they were considered suitable to the children who are still playing.