PENERAPAN PERMAINAN BAHASA GUESSING GAMES BERBASIS POWERPOINT DALAM MENINGKATKAN KETERAMPILAN BERBICARA ANAK USIA DINI

Abstract

The motivation of this research is that some problems in children's speaking skills are not getting enough attention in several schools. Therefore, this study intends to describe how the application of PowerPoint-based guessing games in improving children's speaking skills in Group B of Thoyyibah Kindergarten in Bandar Lampung. This research used a qualitative descriptive method and a case study design. The research results describe the learning activity process with the application of powerpoint based guessing games in improving early childhood speaking skills consisting of 3 stages, namely planning, implementing, and evaluating/assessing. Children's speaking skills can be stimulated and developed well and significantly through the application of language games based on powerpoint guessing games, this can be seen in the child's pronunciation aspect develops well when the child is able to answer guesses given by the teacher and without directly the aspect of developing children's vocabulary increases and when the child retelling it shows that the sentence formation aspects have developed well. However, there are still some factors that limit the application of these games, namely the limited facilities in the form of computers / laptops, thereby reducing the learning atmosphere. In this case, educators overcome this by inviting children to take turns seeing the game.