Indonesian TESOL Journal
Vol 1, No 1 (2019): Indonesian TESOL Journal (March)

Teachers’ Techniques in Teaching English to Young Learners

St. Hartina (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Palopo)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Mar 2019

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to find out the teachers’ techniques in teaching, the problems in teaching and the best teaching techniques used by the teacher in teaching English to young learners at TK Bambini School of Makassar. It applied descriptive qualitative research. The subjects of the research were three kindergarten teachers of TK Bambini School of Makassar. The data were obtained through interview and observation. The data were analyzed based on procedure of data analysis that consisted of the data collection, the data reduction, the data display, and conclusion: drawing/verification. The findings showed that (1) the teachers’ techniques in teaching English to young learners were singing a song, games, presentation practice and production, drilling, demonstration, story-telling, reading aloud, and  dictation,  (2) the teachers’ problems in applying the certain teaching techniques were learners’ lack of self-confidence, learners’ uncontrollable movement when singing and playing the games, learners’ misunderstanding towards the games rules and the story, learners’ less focus on teachers’  presentation and instructions, learners’ unfamiliarity of the spelling words, learners’ inability to read and write the word or sentences, and the teachers’ difficulty in explaining the lesson and in performing science experiment, (3) the best teaching techniques implemented by the teachers were playing games, demonstration and presentation practice and production.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ITJ

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Indonesian TESOL Journal (ITJ) published by LP2M IAIN Palopo is a biannual, refereed, open access, and practitioner-oriented electronic journal dedicated to enhancing and disseminating scholarly work of the current theory and research in the field of TESOL. It publishes both conceptual and ...