BELAJAR KEMAHIRAN MENGENAL HURUF MENGGUNAKAN AKTIVITI MEMBENTUK DOH

Dough shaping activity can be applied to help students with learning disability to learn alphabet identifying skill. This research aim to see how far students with learning disability can increase mastery in identifying alphabets through activity using dough shaping. Quasi experimental research is done to six students with learning disability that were chosen through purposive sampling in three secondary school who run Special Education Integration Program (Learning Disability) from two district in the state of Perak Darul Ridzuan. A control group in School A consists of two students (M1 and M2) while treatment were carried out in School B and School C. M3 and M4 of School B received Treatment 1 utilising activity using dough shaping while M5 and M6 of School C received Treatment 2 using splashing activity. Research instrument is made up from pre-test and post-test and the research is carried out in the period of three month. Research findings show that an increase in achievement in Treatment Group compared to Control Group. The research also discovers that score of achievement of research participants in Treatment Group 1 (activity using dough shaping) of School B had increased exponentially than score of research participants in Treatment Group 2. M3 obtained 33 percent during pre-test and give rise to 50 percent in post-test while M4 shows an improvement from 67 to a 100 percent. This research proves that activity that use dough shaping can be used to teach identifying alphabet skill in a simpler method. This research suggests that a teaching module to identify alphabets using dough shaping is developed to assist teachers in carrying out teaching and learning process effectively.