TEACHING ENGLISH FOR CHILDREN

Firstly... I like to say thank you to Mr. Muna ( my partner) and all of my students of Islamic kindergarten Sudirman V Ambarawa... This is for you my little Stars...

My Students At B1

As an International language, English has gained its popularity all over the world, including Indonesia. In the past English only  taught as a secondary schools, but today however, the teaching English of is expanding into primary school also kindergarten setting.
The phenomena have caused many English educators charged with teaching teacher education, curriculum and material development to raise question about how the best to teach English as a foreign language to young children.

Teaching English for young learners invloves more than merely teaching the language. Both social and cognitive development of learners need to be taken  into account when planning  for them. In my experiences the best way to teach them are simply playing game. And rather than focus on individual development it is also very good idea  to promote class interaction as far as posible.
Children do like playing and it has been said that playing is the only thing children taken seriously, they love playing and they are learning while they playing.
So many things we can use to teach English for children. Based on my experiences when I am teaching my students it useful when using some kind of activities like songs, nursery rhyme, pictures, and games.

• Songs

Begin the class with song

I always begin my class with lead them to some songs and they really interest with this and enjoy the moment. The children will be likely to hear as they grow up because of the " universal nature" of the song in this way. They not only learn a language but also material and culture. By a song we also introduce new lesson. My experience, I use one song  to teach them space ( with potong bebek angsaa lyric) by combining two language English and Bahasa.



The star itu bintang
The moon itu bulan
The cloud itu awan
The sun matahari...(etc)

Its easy but useful for me to teach them something new.

•  Nursery Rhymes

Practice in nursery

Another medium activity that create amusing atmospher is rhyme. Like so many kind of modified rhymes:
One two take out your book
Three four open the book
Five six read them loud
Seven eight read them soft
Nine ten do it again

•  Pictures

Picture is good

Certain kinds of ready-made pictures can be use to developed and sustain motivation to produce positive toward English and to teach some language learning skills. Usually I bring pieces of picture and has letter at the bottom named the picture. My students will understand fast about it.

• Games

Lets  sleep and wake

Using games will be fun for our class. when your students get tired of learning it will be fine if we lead them for playing. in  playing also we will be able to put some material inside. one thing to remember is when they are playing the time they learning so it will be something great if we could combine both material and games.





There are actually still hundreds of  activities  can be used in English teaching language with a little foresight and gain their success . However, careful  planing before teaching is badly needed to get maximum effectiveness.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein