ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT BASED ON TYNKER PROGRAM IN IMPROVING FOURTH GRADE OF ELEMENTARY STUDENTS^ VOCABULARIES
1Fahri Haswani, 2 Ade Aini Nuran, and 3 Indah Maya Sari

Universitas Negeri Medan

Abstract

In 21ST century learning, students must be facilitated to have Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and problem solving, dan Creativity and Innovation. including elementary students. Tynker is a platform for learning programming for kids that teaches them game design, web design, animation, and robotics. Thus, the aim of the study was to develop English teaching material based on tynker program to improve vocabularies of fourth grade elementary students. The subject of the study was 20 students of fourth grade in SD Swasta Zia Salsabila. Research and Development research was conducted in this study. The techniques of collecting data were observation, interview and questionnaire. Furthermore, the data were analyzed by using descriptive qualitative and quantitative analysis. the result of the study showed that English teacher material based on tynker program improved students^ motivation on vocabularies learning.

Keywords: Tynker, Vocabulary, Elementary Students, Research and Development

Topic: Language and Culture Education