THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BIG BOOK AS THE TEACHER’S MADE MEDIA IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY UNDERSTANDING ABOUT TRANSPORTATION OF AL-YA’LU PRE-KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL

The use of learning media is one main thing that matters in education. The initial observations showed that the teacher had never used any big book as the media to introduce vocabulary on transportation, so the teacher tried to use big book media. The Research problems in this research are the researcher wanted to know if the implementation of big book media could improve the ability to recognize transportation vocabulary in children aged 3-4 years, what efforts the teacher made to improve the ability to recognize transportation vocabulary for children aged 3-4 years using big book media, and how children aged 3-4 years would respond to introducing transportation vocabulary activities delivered through big book media. This research employed classroom action research with two cycles. Data was collected through observation, documentation, question and answer and demonstration. The research subjects were AL-YA’LU Superior Pre-Kindergarten students with a total of 19 children. The results of the research showed that 9 or 69.23% of the students were able to recognize transportation vocabulary in cycle I, and 12 or 92.30% of students in cycle II achieved success criteria. Teacher activity in using big book media to improve the ability to recognize transportation vocabulary for children aged 3-4 years has been effective by applying 25 indicators out of 26 assessment indicators. 10 students or 76.92% responded on the use of the big book to introducing transportation vocabulary activity in cycle I, and 16 students or 84.21% in cycle II.