The use of ‘snake ladder’ as English teaching media for mentally retarded students: a case study of SLB (sekolah luar biasa) Sasanti Wiyata Surabaya

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Munawwaroh, Ahsanatul (2021) The use of ‘snake ladder’ as English teaching media for mentally retarded students: a case study of SLB (sekolah luar biasa) Sasanti Wiyata Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel.

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Abstract

Every student has different needs and characters, and teachers should be able to address the different needs of the students, for example by using various methods and approaches. This also applies when teaching retarded students; teachers can use a media to transform the information effectively. Snake and ladder is one of interactive media that teachers can use in teaching English for retarded students. This research aimed to identify the use ‘snake and ladder’ as a learning media at SLB (sekolah luar biasa) Sasanti Wiyata Surabaya by interviewing the English teacher. The research found that they were happy, enthusiastic, ant more spirit to learn English. In fact by using Snake and ladder as English teaching media, the mentally retarded students could improve their English vocabulary, they could interact with other students and the teacher easily and effective, and they could remember and understood the lesson. The findings highlights that the teacher should continue to use ‘snake and ladder’ as English teaching media for mentally retarded students and also the teacher could create an interested design to improve their enthusiastic.