@phdthesis{UNY21008,
            year = {2013},
           month = {July},
           title = {DEVELOPING STORY-BASED ACTIVITIES FOR THE CLASS B CHILDREN OF TK AL-AMIEN KADISOKA YOGYAKARTA},
          school = {Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta},
          author = {Kurnia Wulandari},
             url = {http://eprints.uny.ac.id/21008/},
        keywords = {story-based activities, TK},
        abstract = {The objective of the study was to develop a set of story-based activities for class B children of TK AL-Amien Kadisoka. The study was concerned with how to provide story-based activities for the English teaching and learning process in kindergartens.
The study was Research and Development (R \& D). The procedure of the study were conducting needs analysis, planning (selecting the topics and the objectives of the activities), writing the course grid, developing the first draft of the story-based activities, evaluating and revising the first draft of the story-based activities, implementing the second draft of the story-based activities (try out), and evaluating and revising the second draft of the story-based activities. The instruments of the study were interview guidelines and questionnaires. The data of the interview were analyzed qualitatively and the data from the questionnaires were analyzed quantitatively.
The product of the study consists of the needs analysis of the story-based activities, a course grid, lesson plans, the drafts of the developed story-based activities, and the instructional media. The developed story-based activities are presented into three units. They are ?The Little Indian Boy?, ?The Greedy Monkey?, and ?The Mouse deer and the Crocodiles?. Every unit of the developed story-based activities consists of a story and six activities. From the result of the evaluation questionnaires which were distributed to the kindergarten teachers, English teachers, and students of English Education Department, the developed story-based activities are categorized as good and very good as the mean scores range from 3.26 to 3.47. Furthermore, the characteristics of the developed storybased activities include 1) providing activities which are relevant to the goal of the teaching and learning process in kindergarten, 2) including interesting, motivating and suitable input for the children, 3) including various activities which are related to the story to accommodate children to work individual and in groups 4) providing media which can link the children imagination to the content of the stories, 5) providing guidance which contains clear and meaningful instructions in the teacher?s guide.}
}