Design of Al-Quran Reading Books for Early Age Children: Study on the Development of Teaching Materials Based on Arabic-Indonesian Phonetic Integration

Abstract

Purpose - This research aims to develop a textbook for learning to read and write the Koran for early childhood with a language learning approach in its preparation.

Design/methodology/approach - This research uses research and development methods by following the stages offered by Sugiono. Because this research was carried out during the pandemic, several stages in the field were not carried out. Researchers only focus on developing the validation results from language and material experts.

Findings/result - The findings of this research conclude that the Al-Qur'an reading and writing learning textbook that has been developed according to experts is worthy of being tested even though there are several notes on aspects of the presentation of the material.

Originality/value - The originality of this research suggests that future researchers can develop the results of validation of this book in the field and can duplicate these findings in other areas where the phonetics of the speakers may be different from those of children in the area where the researchers conducted the development.

Paper type - Research paper