AN EVALUATION OF THE USE OF FLASHCARD FOR TEACHING VOCABULARY AT KINDERGARTENS IN SINTANG

Aug 29, 2026

Vocabulary determines learners’ ability to speak because it is the basis for producing words, so classroom media are needed to help introduce vocabulary to young children. This study evaluates the effects of flashcard media on teaching vocabulary and examines teachers’ responses in kindergartens in Sintang Regency, West Kalimantan. A descriptive qualitative evaluation approach gathers data from questionnaires with fifty-one participants and semi-structured interviews with five participants. Likert-scale analysis is used to assess flashcard use.

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Introduction

Teaching vocabulary in kindergarten

Types of vocabulary (productive and receptive)

Preliminary observation and use of flashcards

Literature Review

Teaching vocabulary

Vocabulary as a language foundation

Journal of Education, Teaching, and Learning is licensed under A Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. AN EVALUATION OF THE USE OF FLASHCARD FOR TEACHING VOCABULARY AT KINDERGARTENS IN SINTANG Henry Elisa 1), Tuti2) 1)STKIP Persada Khatulistiwa, Sintang, Indonesia E-mail: [henryelisa.edu@gmail.com](henryelisa.edu@gmail.com) 2)STKIP Persada Khatulistiwa, Sintang, Indonesia E-mail: [tutiidris10@gmail.com](tutiidris10@gmail.com) Abstract. Vocabulary plays an important role in determining the students’ ability for speaking because it is basic before children can produce words. Therefore, the teacher needs media as a tool to introduce those words to their students in the classroom. Flashcards is one of the media usually used by teachers at kindergartens in the Sintang Regency for teaching vocabulary for young learners. This research aims to evaluate the effects of using flashcard media for teaching vocabulary and identify the teachers’ responses towards the use of flashcard media for teaching vocabulary at kindergartens in Sintang Regency, West Kalimantan. This descriptive research qualitative research as an evaluation study is designed to explore the effects of the media on the students and teachers’ perspective. The data in this research were gathered through questionnaires with fifty-one participants and a semi-structured interview with five participants in Sintang Regency. The data analysis techniques used scale Likert in order researchers know how the use of flashcards by the teachers. The study’s results revealed that teachers believe that using flashcards is essential for teaching vocabulary to young learners. Thus, the teachers have various flashcards that can be applied for teaching vocabulary to young learners, for using colourful flashcards with different sizes. It is expected that this research gives references and knowledge for the kindergarten teachers who teach young learners so they could use the same media but with different types of flashcards types. Keywords: Flashcards; Teaching Media; Teaching Vocabulary; Vocabulary; Kindergarten I. INTRODUCTION Teaching vocabulary is one of the teaching activities at Kindergarten. Various vocabularies can be taught to the students such as parts of the body, animals, family members, etc. The teacher should be able to choose appropriate vocabularies that are going to be taught for them. The vocabularies must be useful for the students after they have learnt. So, the vocabularies that they have learnt in the classroom will help them in communicating with people in their environments such as in their family, with neighbours and also in other public places. In choosing the vocabularies, the teacher should decide the kind of vocabulary such as productive vocabulary that is theset of words that an individual can use when writing or speaking. They are words that are well-known, familiar, and used frequently by people in daily communication. Conversely, receptive, or recognition, vocabulary is that set of words for which an individual can assign meanings when listening or reading them in their daily communication. From a preliminary observation which had done at kindergartens in Sintang Regency. The researchers found that they have different abilities in vocabulary mastery. This condition should be overcome. Therefore, the researchers tried to interview groups B teachers at the kindergarten to get brief preliminary information about the kinds of media which are using by them in teaching vocabulary. One of the media used for teaching vocabulary is flashcard. This media is used to help the students to know and understand the meaning of vocabularies. There are some researchers which have been conducted related to the use of flashcard for teaching vocabulary. Firstly, the research of using flashcard media was conducted by Taghizadeh, Vaezi, and Ravan (2017) through their study to find the effect of this media on the students’

FAQs

What is the main purpose of using flashcards for teaching vocabulary in this study?

The study evaluates how flashcard media affects vocabulary teaching and learning for young learners, particularly in kindergarten classrooms.

How were data collected for evaluating flashcard use?

Data were gathered through questionnaires with fifty-one participants and semi-structured interviews with five participants in Sintang Regency.

What do teachers think about using flashcards for teaching vocabulary?

Teachers believe flashcards are essential for teaching vocabulary to young learners and use varied flashcards, including colorful ones with different sizes.

Aug 29, 2026

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