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Suggestopedia Meets Multisensory Learning: A Synergistic Approach to Boosting Children's Creative Thinking and Expressive Language
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Students must think creatively and communicate well. Students who fail to share their thoughts and discoveries may lack confidence and perform poorly in social situations. This study analyses how multisensory suggestopedia boosts student creativity and expressive language. This quantitative experiment uses non-equivalent control groups and explanations. This study featured 30 control and 30 experimental students. A sample of grade 1 elementary school students was chosen for the study. This study included questionnaires and observation checklists. A 12-item children's creative thinking questionnaire and an 8-item expressive language instrument were used in this study. This study tested normalcy and homogeneity. Data was further analyzed using SPSS with an independent sample t-test. Multimodal suggestopedia learning increased students' language and creative thinking, according to one study. Creative thinking and expressive language scores were high in the experimental group: 32.8 > 17.5 and 25.55 > 14.5. Additionally, each variable has a significance value of 0.000 < 0.05. The optimistic suggestions in Suggestopedia facilitate multisensory learning by engaging students' senses. Students' ability to think creatively and articulate their ideas has grown. Future students may benefit from Suggestopedia and other multisensory learning tools.
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Creativity and innovation require creative thinking(Yustina et al., 2022). These skills help primary school students solve simple problems from different perspectives, express themselves, gain confidence, and become more dynamic in facing future challenges(Leasa et al., 2021). Developing students' creative thinking skills is essential for their cognitive, social, and emotional development(Yumurtacı & Mede, 2021). Creative students can convey their thoughts more easily(Aini et al., 2020). Creative students are usually good communicators(Cormier et al., 2022).
According to Timss (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, Indonesian students' creativity is still low(Ismara et al., 2017). Creative thinking requires logic, which only 17% of Indonesian students fulfilled in 2015. According to research by Yayasan Plan International Indonesia in 2021, 70% of primary school students' creativity amid the COVID-19 epidemic is underdeveloped. The study involved 2,000 children aged 6-18 years from 20 provinces in Indonesia (https://plan-international.or.id). According to this survey, 83% of Indonesian children lack creative thinking skills.
Students with low creative thinking skills have difficulty in solving problems, innovating, adapting, expressing themselves, gaining confidence lacking creativity, suggestions, problem-solving options, and details(Eshet & Margaliot, 2022)(Yafie et al., 2020). The low ability to convey thoughts can hinder students in expressing themselves(Kustiawan & Yafie, 2021). Students have low expression language skills because they cannot articulate what they think(Yildiz & Guler Yildiz, 2021). Therefore, students' creative thinking and expressive language skills should be improved(Ulum et al., 2021).
Students need expressive language to communicate their thoughts, feelings, and ideas orally(Setianingsih et al., 2021). Students who understand expressive language can communicate, learn about the world, express themselves, and develop creative thinking skills(Leasa et al., 2021). Good language skills help children communicate with others. Modern students need expressive language skills to communicate, access educational opportunities and compete at the next level of schooling(Rosmala et al., 2021). Expressive language skills allow students to voice their perspectives and share fresh ideas(Kartikasari et al., 2022).
The problem that often occurs in developing students' expressive language is that students are less able to provide feedback in discussion forums. Students also cannot convey their ideas, cannot express their ideas using the right words, pronunciation is still stammering, and sentence structures are still difficult to understand(Yafie et al., 2021). Continued problems can cause students' communication skills to be hampered and students lose confidence in expressing themselves(Yafie et al., 2020). This is also supported by(Yafie et al., 2020))’s research which states that students who do not have the ability to express language will have difficulty in adapting to the surrounding environment.
In 2019, the Language Centre of the Ministry of Education and Culture found that 40% of students lacked expressive language skills. The study involved 1,500 children in grades 1-6 from 5 provinces in Indonesia (https://badanbahasa.kemdikbud.go.id/). Students with poor expressive language skills have difficulty in expressing their thoughts and feelings, become less confident in speaking, and avoid discussion forums(Abbeduto et al., 2023). According to(Hidayat et al., 2018), a less flexible curriculum, lack of time for play and exploration, lack of acceptance of diverse ways of thinking, and demands to meet academic standards can inhibit students' creative thinking and expressive language development. In addition, students struggle to solve complex or unusual situations(Yayuk et al., 2020). Lack of variety in teaching approaches reduces students' creative thinking and expressive language abilities(Yustina et al., 2022). Children can overcome difficulties, be creative and adapt to change with creativity(Acuna Agudelo et al., 2020). Children can overcome difficulties, create, and adapt to change with creativity(Acuna Agudelo et al., 2020).
Therefore, teachers should teach students creative thinking and expressive language. Children can gain self-expression and self-confidence through creativity(Hammershøj, 2021). Creative thinking helps children communicate new ideas and build expressive language skills. Effective tactics can enhance children's inventiveness and expressive language. As Suggestopedia Meets Multisensory Learning combines positive suggestion and multisensory learning, this method may be optimal for developing these skills(Astutik, 2019). To help children learn, this method emphasises positive suggestion and relaxation through hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste.
Teachers often tell students to read and listen to learn(Waluyo et al., 2018). Such activities can distract students and make them inaccessible to students with learning disabilities(Widyana et al., 2020). Of course, not all senses can be utilised in every session. If possible, multisensory learning will make education more engaging and inclusive. Multisensory learning is one of the main ways teachers can change their methods of teaching to provide students with varied learning experiences(Wu et al., 2022). If educators want all children to reach and exceed benchmarks, they must be able to adapt the way education is delivered.
Suggestopedia Meets Multisensory Learning encourages creativity and expression so that it can improve students' creativity and language skills. Students will get used to learning with different methods. This research shows how Suggestopedia and Multisensory Learning can enhance students' creative thinking and expressive language. This knowledge will help educators, parents, and practitioners to create more interesting and innovative primary school learning techniques. This research can also fill the void of educational literature on the use of these strategies in primary school students.
Previous research related to creative thinking skills was conducted by
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