Previous Study Problem Statement

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B. Previous Study

The researcher sees three previous studies to make this research valid. The first is Indrayanti 2003 in her paper entitled “Introducing English Vocabulary to the Students of Theresia Kindergarten Using a Playing-While- Singing Technique”. She described teaching learning activities in Theresia Kindergarten using a playing-while-singing Technique to teach vocabulary. The second is Maria 2005 in her paper entitled “The Implementation of English Vocabulary using Total Physical Response TPR for SD 1 Gatak Yogyakarta”. She described teaching learning using TPR for SD 1 Gatak Yogyakarta. She implemented TPR for teaching vocabulary in SD N Gatak I Yogyakarta. The result of her research is that TPR is good to teach vocabulary to the students. The third is Cristiana 1999 with her study “Teaching Learning Process of English using Communicative Language Teaching CLT to the kindergarten students of Mutiara Persada”. There are some weaknesses in implementing communicative language teaching to the children. She tried to practice teaching English using CLT method in Mutiara Persada. In here, she found some weaknesses such as the children have not known English yet at all, it will make the children difficult to speak English. Based on the research above, the researcher thinks that this research is different from the previous research. She would like to focus on her research on how to design a set of materials for students in Taman Andini Playgroup using Multiple Intelligences. The differences between this research and the previous ones are it focuses more on using Multiple Intelligences method to teach children in Taman Andini Playgroup. In here, the researcher will make a 4 teacher handbook that will be used to teach English in Taman Andini Playgroup. The Similarity between them is: it tries to teach English for children.

C. Problem Statement

Based on the problem limitation above, the formulated problems are: 1. How is the design of materials based on children multiple intelligences for Taman Andini Playgroup designed? 2. Are the materials suitable with the children intelligence?

D. Objective of the Study