Alternative Languages for The Effectiveness of Early Children Learning Communicators

摘要

Early childhood education is very important. Not only as a preliminary preparation for entering elementary school. But it also becomes the foundation of children's growth and mental development and potential. In this period, the role of a teacher as a communicator who conveys material messages to students becomes crucial. Especially in Indonesia, kindergarten teachers are class teachers who must deliver the entire material thoroughly according to the curriculum. In contrast to elementary, middle, and high school teachers who teach according to their respective subject areas. Kindergarten teachers must master everything. Problems arise when in a school there are students who come from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds, while the class teacher is not a language teacher. As a communicator of the message, the role of language is very dominant as a key to the success of the message delivered properly. If not, then the message cannot be transferred to students which means there will be communication barriers. The research question is how the communication strategy used by classroom teachers in kindergarten schools that have several students with different language backgrounds so that communication can run effectively and the message is well conveyed. This type of research is qualitative descriptive, case study research methods in Al-Hikmah Kindergarten, Surabaya, Indonesia, and data collection techniques are interviews with teachers and parents of students, as well as classroom observations. The results of this study are a kindergarten teacher in a school with a background of students from various cultures and languages must master several alternative languages both local and foreign languages to be able to convey learning messages effectively because kindergarten teachers are class teachers who are required to convey all material areas in a complete.