Analyzing of puzzle local culture-based in teaching english for young learners

Abstract

Local culture-based learning is potential learning with integrates and emphasizes culture locally in the learning process. Learning through culture could be raised up of students’ appreciation for the local culture. This study potentials to improve students’ interesting, enrich vocabulary, metacognitive, and four basic language skills for younger learners “it is time to speak, it is time read, it is time to read, and the last one, time to listen. The subjects of this study were students’ primary school level, less than ten years consist of 20 boys and 14 girls, totaling is 34 students. This study used descriptive qualitative techniques in describing the improvement experienced by students. And the data used of this research were gathered by 1) observation; 2) interview; 3) documentation. The results of this study showed that 20 students felt interesting in learning English, 10 students showed progress in vocabulary, and the rest did not show any progress, and, this is influenced by the internal factors of the students. It is also recommended that puzzle local culture-based can be used as a media to motivate young learners in learning English. By doing this, the teacher could assess not only their interest to learn English but also their understanding of their local cultures.

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“…furthermore, their confident will be shaped gradually to be better. In accordance with this finding, Butarbutar et al (2019) also found that learning English by using the local culture contents could make the students become more enthusiastic and motivated in the learning process. Besides that, by using local culture in learning English, it could improve the students' writing skills (Nurlia & Arini, 2017), speaking skills (Alakrash et al, 2021;Kamilah et al, 2019).…”

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