Sumbangan kaedah lisentu dalam mendiskriminasi huruf kecil dari perspektif murid program pemulihan khas

Abstract

Remedial Education Programme pupils are pupils who are weak in basic 3M skills, which are reading, writing and counting skills. Some of them have special needs characteristics such as dyslexia. Weaknesses in mastering basic 3M skills cause them to drop put of learning. The Remedial Education Programme which provides the Remedial Education Syllabus, Remedial Education Classes and Remedial Education Teachers has been introduced by the Ministry of Education Malaysia (KPM) since the 1960s to solve the learning problems faced by the Remedial Education Programme pupils. According to past researchs, the difficulty of discriminating against lowercase letters is a difficulty that pupils of the Remedial Education Programme always face. The skill of discriminating against lowercase letters b and d is categorized in the skill of recognizing letters which is the most basic skill in the Syllabus of Remedial Education Programme. However, the methods and strategies provided in the existing research such as LEGOTU method and dough forming cannot help the researcher to solve the difficulty of discriminating the small letters b and d faced by the Remedial Education Programme pupils in his school. Therefore, a case study using LISENTU was created and carried out. This case study aims to solve the difficulty of discriminating against lowercase b and d in terms of the interests and perceptions of pupils of the Remedial Education Programme by using LISENTU method. The LISENTU method consists of three types of activities, namely “Lihat” activity, “Sentuh” activity and “Tulis” activity. In “Lihat” activitiy, the participants mentioned and identified the lowercase letters b and d based on the letter cards shown using the Mystery Periskop. In “Sentuh” activity, the participants were wearing eye masks, then touching the pop-up letter card shown and pronouncing the touched letters. In the “Tulis” activity, the participants wrote letters in the correct way in the triline paper. The research data has been cited through the method of interviewing the participants and document analysis methods. The transcripts of the collected interviews have been analysed using thematic methods. Five themes have been analysed to explain the three research questions in this study. In conclusion, the results of the study proved that LISENTU method successfully contributed to the discriminating skills of lowercase letters b and d from the perspective of Remedial Education Programme pupils.