The effect of emotion bingo board to improve the ability to recognize emotional expression of children aged 4-6 years

Abstract

This study aims to determine whether learning through visual media images can aid young children in understanding their own and other people's emotional expressions. Quantitative experimentation using a pretest-posttest control group design was used in this investigation. The subjects of this study were 19 youngsters who were in classes B1 and B2 of the early childhood education school Mutiara Bunda Post in Malang City. The data collection method in this study uses a pretest-posttest of the ability to recognize emotional expression consisting of 10 items and the Emotion Bingo Board developed by researchers based on the theory of Stewart (1985) and Muhammad (2011) while still paying attention to the characteristics of early childhood. Pretests, various treatments administered to the experimental and control groups, and post-tests are all part of the experimentation process. Research data analysis to test hypotheses using t-tests of experimental and control groups, exhibiting results t = 0.003 (sign.<0.05). At the end of the study, there was a difference in ability between the experimental and control group students. Since the learning outcomes in this study were better for the experimental group than the control group, the hypothesis was accepted, indicating that the Emotion Bingo Board impacted young children's capacity to recognize emotional expression. Other preschools can use the Emotion Bingo Board and its necessary processes.