At-Tajdid: Jurnal Ilmu Tarbiyah
Vol 6 No 2 (2017): July 2017

Ten Helpful Games and Activities for Teaching English to Young Learners

Zainollah Zainollah (Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Tarbiyah Al-Karimiyyah Sumenep)



Article Info

Publish Date
17 Jan 2018

Abstract

Teaching English to young learner is very different from teaching English to adolescent or adult. It is different because young learner has unique characteristics that should be responded through special teaching approaches, methods, or techniques. Teaching English to young learner needs creativities in terms of class management, atmosphere, teaching styles as well. Game and joyfull teaching and learning activities are very reccomended in teaching English to young learner. This article tries to propose ten helpful games and activities for teaching English to young learners. The single purpose of the games are to help English teachers in developing students’ English skill trough games. The proposal of games and activities are: (1) hidden words, (2) broken sentence, (3) throwing a ball, (4) adjective hunt, (5) outburst, (6) at the zoo, (7) mini dialogue, (8) words group: noun, (9) verb + noun collocation, (10) mixed word and sentence. The games and activities are considered as helpful media for teachers in teaching English to young learners especially in the primary school level. In this article, the games and activities are completed with description, aims, age, materials, and procedures. This article hopefully can give beneficial advantages for readers especially English teachers of young learners as suplementary references or handbooks in teaching English to young learnres in the primary school level.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

tajdid

Publisher

Subject

Religion Education Other

Description

At Tajdid: Jurnal Ilmu Tarbiyah is a scientific journal in Islamic Education under Institut Studi Islam Muhammadyah Pacitan, Indonesia. This journal is focused on education development, especially Islamic Education through the publication of articles and research reports. The scopes of the journals ...