Abstract

The research aims to improve the children's social emotionalachievement through traditional games. The traditional games are the solution for the existing cultural and untapped potential for the stimulation process in early childhood. The experiment was conducted among 16 children of group B of Early Childhood Education Mutiara Hati Mataram in 2015. The action research was done through the four items, namely planning, action, observation, and reflection conducted on three cycles. The process of the data collection was done through interviews, observation and document analysis and were interpreted using quantitative and qualitative analysis. The criteria of achievement research agreement was 75% in the classical style. The research results indicatedthat the games can improve the children of 5-6 years social emotional achievement. In the pre-cycle of the children's social emotional lower was Children aged 5-6 years achieved at 36.57%, however, after the experiment conducted, the improvement Achieved are from 52.93% in cycle 1, 70.32% in cycle 2, and 82.92% in the cycle 3. The traditional games of 'kemantenan' and 'Pucia-cia' can be more dominant increase of children emotions and empathy, while 'lung-lung se' and 'begang meow' can be more dominant to improve the relationship and cooperation aspects.

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