Teaching English to Young Learners

Hello, nice to see you again! When teaching English to young learners, all things needed is really different compared to teaching older learners, including the materials.  In teaching young learners, we need to design materials that not only needed or important to be taught, but also we have to consider the readiness of the learners to learn those mateials. No matter how important a certain material needed, if the learners don't ready yet, then it would be useless. Not only in designing the materials, but teacher also need to consider the materials evaluation. We have to avoid a bias evaluation and an unfair materials evaluation. We should evaluate based on the student's position, point of view, inteligence, personality, condition, etc. We shouldn't give the same evaluation for every individual that obviously different one another.

Hello! Welcome back! Have you ever heard the terms "learn to learn"? It might be a little confusing for those who know that for the first time. The meaning of learning to learn is  the ability to pursue and persist in learning, to organise one's own learning, including through effective management of time and information, both individually and in groups.   The point of learning to learn is to learn or develop our knowledge so we can use it in many fields in our life.  We keep learning because everything keeps changing, when everything is changing, our needs will change as well-including the needs in education.  The way and the goals of teaching young learners will far more different compared to young learners 10 years ago. While I was a kid we used to be taught the theory without practicing. The goal is only to understand a certain material theorically, because the assessment only in the form of quiz. So, whoever memorize the theory better, then they will be the best or t

Hello fellas!!! Speaking about assessment, we usually think about grading, scoring, judging. It's about the result of assessing that can be in the form of quality or quantity. Almost everyday in every area in our life, we face that thing that called assessment. It can be assessment in school, assessment in job, etc. In teaching English to young learners we also need that so-called assessment. But in assessing young learners, we need a different way to assess compared to older learners. We need to assess the kids carefully in order to avoid an issue where the toung learners would lose their interest in learning cause in some cases children who got a low grade may lose their motivation in learning. Maybe it's because they have studied really hard, they have given their best, but when they got a low assessment they'll think like their effort is useless.  So, in order to keep them motivated, we shouldn't give only one assessment to achieve the goal. Because every student ha

  Hiii guysss!!! Welcome back! So, now, I'm going to talk about teaching vocabulary and grammar in teaching young learners.  Vocabulary and grammar commonly are the most difficult to learn to when young learners are studying English, even for adult. Seeing this issue we can also conclude that for those who are learning English and find it difficult to learn vocabulary and gramar are not properly taught. Usually their reasons are learning vocabulary and grammar too difficult, boring, etc. So, now we can find out that the key is in the way they learn or in they are being taught. So, in teaching vocabulary and grammar even if it's for young learners or adult. We as the teacher have to make sure that they are motivated and enjoy the lesson we are taught. How can we make a fun class-atmosphere?  Well, we have to be able to creat a lively class, we can do it by having a discussion for something that our students are interested in. Like talking about their hobby, favorite food, dreams

Hello guys, welcome back!!! Todays topic is about "Teaching Listening and Speaking". This is the other two English skills that I haven't discuss in the last post.  Let's get started! Listening is a basic step so we are able to speak. It's because listening is a process of acquisition in order to produce or speak. So  before teaching students to speak, firstly, teacher will be better to teach them to listen. In teaching listening for old learners and young learners is quite different. We have to be able to prepare and present a fun and enjoyable material in order to motivate the young learners. In common, teaching students with movement is the best method of teaching, it will build up student's spirit and motivation to learn.  Here are some listening activities that can help teacher to teach young learners:  Listen and do, listen and show, listen and point, listen and make, Using flashcards for pre-teaching new vocabulary, Performing silent dramatization during

  Hello guys, welcome back to my blog. Nice to see you again :) The topic that I'm going to discuss this time is about "Teaching Reading and Writing" to young learners. So, let's get it!!! In learning English, there are four skills that needed to develop in order to be able to communicate fluently. But, here I'll only discuss two of them namely reading and writing skills.  Basically, all the English skills are developed by the help of English teacher. So, here I'll discuss some factors that needed to be concerned by the English teacher to help their students to develop their reading and writing skills. The first is teaching reading. In teaching this skill, there are two main reading skills that English teacher should put more focus on. The two skills are skill in understanding meaning and context and decoding letters and words. These two skills can be develop  by relying on bottom-up (focus on decoding letters and words) and top-down (focus on meaning and cont