Edugame Application as Vocabulary Learning Media for Deaf Children

Abstract

Reading activity has tremendous impacts and benefits in sharpening and increasing one's intelligence. Each individual is entitled to the opportunity to be able to read, both those who are normal and those who have disabilities, such as the one with hearing impairment or deaf. Hearing impediment often causes a setback or even loss of speech because the sufferer has a deficiency or loss of hearing ability either partial or total. The problem encountered by the deaf person breeds the idea of developing learning applications for people with disabilities especially children. This research aims to make it easier for children to understand and foster vocabulary acquisition as well as to develop children's motivation in the learning process as this learning media is designed with an attractive and interactive interface. Edugame application which emphasized an android-based visual form was established as a support to the development of children's speech and reading skills. The development method used in designing this application is the prototyping model which consists of the needs analysis, prototype design, prototype evaluation, program writing/coding, program testing, program evaluation, and implementation. Edugame as vocabulary learning media for deaf children promotes an interesting and interactive learning process to improve children's understanding of words in learning vocabulary. The results of the black box testing, pre-test and post-test, paired sample t-test, SUS, and Aiken V revealed that all the results were valid, so it could be concluded that there were significant differences (real) before and after the use of the application in the learning process.

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