THE EFFECT OF THE USE OF ROLE PLAYING METHODS ON THE EMOTIONAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

Abstract

The learning process is found by students with different emotional-social development, so that we need a method that can foster students' social-emotional development, namely the role-playing method.The purpose of this study was to find the effect of the use of the role-playing method on the social-emotional development of students in class III Ambalawi cluster 2 in the academic year 2020/2021.  This research design using Nonequivalent Control Group Design.The sampling technique used was purposive sampling.  The population in this study were all class III elementary school students of Ambalawi cluster 2 in the academic year 2020/2021. The sample in this study was the third grade students of SDN 1 Rite as an experimental class and class III students of SDN Inpres 2 Rite as a control class.Social-emotional development data were analyzed using independent sample t-test with the help of statistical analysis program SPSS 16.0 for windows with a significance level of 5% or 0.05, the results obtained were ttest ˂ 0.05 (ttest = 0.00), it can be concluded that Ha is accepted.  and H0 is rejected.  So that "there is an effect of the role-playing method on the social-emotional development of students in class III Ambalawi Group 2 for the 2020/2021 school year