Application of the Role Playing Method to Increase Students' Learning Motivation

Abstract

Role playing is a learning method used as a learning model in the classroom in order to increase students' motivation towards social studies learning in the classroom. This method is used so that students do not feel bored when learning social studies, by using this learning model it can attract students' motivational enthusiasm for learning social studies. Learning motivation is something that is instilled in a person to always be enthusiastic about participating in learning in the classroom. This motivation can arise with encouragement from other people to move forward to achieve success. The results of the study showed that: the application of the role playing method can increase student learning motivation can be seen from the results of the group assessment, namely in cycle I, namely 70 and in cycle II, namely 89, while in the record the results of increasing learning motivation are shown from the percentage of student completeness in cycle I is 66% while in cycle II is 84%. Based on the results of this study it can be concluded that students' learning motivation in social studies subjects can be increased through the role playing learning method.