A Psychological Study on the Impact of Developing Indonesian Language Teaching Materials to Enhace Beginners Reading Ability through "PEBI" Interactive Educational Game

Abstract

Introduction: all teachers have to face a number of psychologic effects on students which surface problems in their teaching, especially with methodology, and teaching media that have to be used in the teaching process.

Objectives: This study aims to develop Indonesian language teaching materials based method that decrease psychological stress on the interactive educational game "PEBI".

Methods: The Dick and Carey model is used as the basis for the research and development in this work. Students in Serang District's second grade were the topic of this study and development. Quasi-experimental study was conducted with students, and the results were validated by a panel of five experts in the field of learning media. Descriptive statistics are used to inquire into how students feel about the product's advantages and disadvantages, while the t-test is used to assess the product's efficacy. Experts found that the degree of practicality of the generated interactive teaching materials for the Indonesian topic was extremely high (4.50 out of 5, or 90%) across all assessment criteria, including language, presentation, appearance, and usage.

Result: The effectiveness test results showed that Indonesian language teaching materials based on games on Indonesian language subject matter were suitable for use and recommended as learning resources for class II students. The decrease psychological pressures.

Conclusions: Educators to use teaching materials as companion teaching materials in the hope of further improving the creation of teaching materials that follow the conditions of students based on the environment and are created as attractive as possible.