Play-Based Learning as An Essential Strategy to Face 21st-Century Learning

Playing is an excellent way to enhance learners’ comprehension. Learning through play can be as an alternative process to enhance learners’ knowledge. It allows learners to have abilities in observing, planning, memorizing, exploring, analyzing, and creating meaning. Those abilities support learners’ learning process not only for their external skills such as in socialization but also their essential skills such as in improving their language abilities, working with others, and promoting creativity. This study highlights the notion of play-based learning and how this alternative learning process can be integrated into 21st-century learning. Involvement in play encourages learners to cultivate their thinking to be critical. The play-based learning process enhances learners' outcomes academically and socially. In short, it makes learners success in facing 21st-century learning.