This research aims to integrate Islamic values into board games activities
and identify the potential benefits and challenges associated with integrating
Islamic values into board games as an English learning media. This study
addresses a critical research gap by not only using board game activities as an
English learning media but also integrating Islamic values into the board games.
The study demonstrates that in order to maintain student motivation, educators
must ensure that learning is both simple and engaging with media.
This study adopts Design-Based Research (DBR) design by Reeves model
which are covered in four phases: analyzing the educational problem, developing
the solutions informed, iterative cycles of refining and testing the solution, and
documentation and reflection to produce the ‘design principle later reflects on the
findings and feedback from evaluation phrase, refine and modify the board game.
The data are acquired by implementing the games into English learning activities
to be played by 67 students from 10th grader by observing the process of the
English learning activity and the questionnaires given to 2 teachers in MAN 2
HST and MA NIPA RAKHA.
The result showed that the games are proven helpful in the process of
learning English by the English teachers with some benefits and challenges
indicated by activeness of the students, easily grasped topic, and fun experience in
learning. On the other hand, there are some challenges where the students have
difficulty forming the answer in English and the game takes some considerably
amount of time.