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Proses belajar terhadap kemampuan dan perilaku baru dimulai dari mengamatidan meniru. Salah satu yang mungkin dilakukan adalah speech imitation, yaitumenirukan ucapan atau pembicaraan yang ditangkap melalui indera. Beberapapenelitian terdahulu menyatakan bahwa selain banyaknya suku kata dan panjangnyakalimat, speech imitation dipengaruhi oleh jeda antara stimulus dan respon,pengulangan kata, dan jenis kelamin pembicara.Anak dapat meniru hal yang dilihatnya melalui media, seperti tayangan.Sebuah penelitian menunjukkan bahwa anak lebih tertarik untuk mengamati danmenirukan tayangan yang menampilkan gambar dan suara dibandingkan dengan yanghanya memiliki tampilan suara. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa tidak terdapatpengaruh yang signifikan dari tipe komponen media yang diberikan terhadap perilakuspeech imitation pada anak usia 3 tahun sampai dengan 3 tahun 11 bulan.ABSTRAK
Learning process to new skill and behavior starts from observation andimitating. One thing that may happen is speech imitation, which being catches bysenses. Some of earlier experiment shows that speech imitation influenced by thepause between stimulus and response, word repetition, and speaker’s gender, besidesthe length of the word or sentence.Children can imitate what they see in the media, like media component. Anexperiment shows that children more likely to observe and imitate things from mediathat shows picture and sound than the one that only has sound. This experiment foundthat there are not significant differences from media component given to the speechimitation behavior in children between 3 years old to 3 years and 11 moths old., Learning process to new skill and behavior starts from observation andimitating. One thing that may happen is speech imitation, which being catches bysenses. Some of earlier experiment shows that speech imitation influenced by thepause between stimulus and response, word repetition, and speaker’s gender, besidesthe length of the word or sentence.Children can imitate what they see in the media, like media component. Anexperiment shows that children more likely to observe and imitate things from mediathat shows picture and sound than the one that only has sound. This experiment foundthat there are not significant differences from media component given to the speechimitation behavior in children between 3 years old to 3 years and 11 moths old.]