Design of The Kansei Board Game to Motivate the Elementary School Student in Learning English

摘要

English is one of the widely used international languages for communication among the nations. Therefore people needs to master the language both in speaking as well as writing and reading. In Indonesia, the mastery of this foreign language is still poor. Thus it is imperative to teach students this language since the elementary school. But, at this time the existing methods of teaching and learning process in the school has not been able to produce the expected quality. Even many students are not interested to learn it. 64% of the students score are below standard, and 67% of the students are not motivated to study hard. The objective of this study is to develop the Kansei Board Game to improve student's motivation in learning English effectively. Kansei Engineering Type 1 method is used to determine design specification based on user's feelings and emotions. A survey was conducted to identify the words of Kansei, while a statistical analysis is used to validate the hypotheses of the proposed design. The study showed that the method for teaching and learning process by using the Kansei board games is valid to meet user criteria and can increase motivation for students in learning English.