Local culture-based picture storybooks for teaching English for young learners

Abstract

Abstract. This paper reports the theoretical perspectives underlying the development of local culture-based picture storybooks for teaching English for young learners. It is a library research which derives from three main sources, journal articles, reference books, and internet articles. Local culture-based picture storybooks are kinds of printed materials which basically contain stories adapted from local culture stories accompanied with visualization in the forms of pictures telling the characters and the settings to help young learners easily understand the stories. They are developed considering the good criteria of storybooks [1,2]. The benefits of its development are (1) to improve reading skill of young learners, (2) to build children English literacy through listening to the story read by the teachers and communicating interactively with them through dialogic reading, (3) create a fun learning atmosphere which enhances motivation and participation to take part in understanding and using the language, and (4) to preserve local culture. The books are developed using a combination of model [3,4] which has 5 main steps namely need analysis, developing product, expert validation, and quality assessment by experts and users (teachers), and main product revision.

Development of Multilingual Thematic Picture Dictionary: A Support for Literacy

“…The results of the previous research found that children will be more interested in reading if the reading material contains visual elements (Biesaga, 2017). This is also identified by those who find that students' reading interest will be higher if they are given a concrete concept and it is in accordance with their learning method (Ratminingsih & Budasi, 2018;Sibanda, 2019). From the results of the assessment provided by the expert, the dictionary developed in this study can be categorized as very good.…”

“…This idea was supported by experts that see the benefit of developing literacy skill as early as possible (Ólafsdóttir & Stefánsson, 2020;Taylor & Leung, 2020;Trainin & Vadasy, 2017). Teaching literacy in the early age should focus on concrete concept, meaningful, interesting, functional and engaging (Huh & Suh, 2017;Ratminingsih & Budasi, 2018). Teaching literacy to children can be started by teaching the smallest elements of a language, namely vocabulary.…”

Observational Skill: The Use of Picture Storybook with Scientific Approach Based Through Project-Based Learning

“…Then students together read books in, this step enters the observation stage in the scientific approach. By providing visualization in the form of images, making students interested, they find motivation and feel comfortable to read storybooks (Ratminingsih & Budasi, 2018). This is indicated that the more curious students to open page by page.…”

Printed Media Versus Digital Media: Which One is More Effective?

“…The strong motivation that students have can lead them to understand the materials easier. Regarding this, the recent research by [7] proves that there is a significant influence on the use of four local culture-based picture storybooks on the reading competence of students in primary schools.…”

“…The story can be delivered by using both printed and digital media. Reference [7] proved that the use of picture storybooks had an effect on students' reading competence. This is due to the fact that the existence of illustration and images in the picture storybook can help the students in understanding the story presented while they are interacting with the teacher.…”