Penerapan Metode Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling Untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Berbahasa Indonesia Siswa Kelas IV di SPH Lippo Cikarang

Abstract

Learning Bahasa Indonesia at the Elementary level consists of four substantive language skills, namely: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. These four skills are very important for students to have in order to be able to achieve the goals of learning Bahasa Indonesia at the Elementary level. These four skills must be supported by adequate vocabulary mastery. However, based on the researcher's observations, more than half of the Bahasa Indonesia A students in Grade IV at SPH Lippo Cikarang still had not mastered the speaking and listening skills in bahasa Indonesia. Besides, their vocabulary mastery was also relatively low. Therefore, the Classroom Action Research design following the  Kemmis and McTaggart’s cycle model was implemented to analyze the improvement of the speaking skills, listening skills, and vocabulary mastery of the eight Grade IV students at SPH Lippo Cikarang in the Bahasa Indonesia A class through the implementation of the Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) method. The research data were obtained through the tests, observation sheets containing the rubrics, student interviews, and teacher’s field notes. The results have indicated that the implementation of the TPRS method could improve the students' speaking skills, listening skills, and vocabulary mastery in the Bahasa Indonesia A class.