Enhancing Indonesian EFL students’ learning outcomes by implementing brain gym

Abstract

The extracurricular activities and self-development after learning activities required extra energy from the students. Therefore, the students’ learning outcomes were not maximally achieved. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to enhance the students’ learning outcomes of learning English before and after the application of the integration of the scientific approach with brain gym activity. This research was an experimental research design with one group pretest-posttest design. The population of this study was students of class XI SMA Negeri 4 Luwu Utara, Indonesia. The sample of this research was 32 students of class XI 1 Department of Social Studies.  However, the final sample amounted to 28 people who met the requirements. Collecting data used was learning outcomes tests. The data were analyzed by using SPSS Application. The results showed that teaching the English language by implementing brain gym activity could enhance the EFL students learning outcomes.