Teaching English to Young Learners

 How did you learn vocabulary items when you were a child in school? what strategies did your teacher teach to remember vocabulary words or figure out what a word meant without being a dictionary? Answer I learned vocabulary when I was a child it's like my teacher gave me a list of words or vocabulary Indonesia-English that contain all things in the classroom like table, blackboard, chair, pencil, and so on, and then we should to memorizing it, after that try to make some sentence for the activity and then make a dialog with a seatmate and practice it in the front of the class, after that it does not just stop in here, the teacher will give homework to make a list of vocabulary in our room, over and over until it goes widely.

Question 1 What do you think for a young learner is the hardest part of writing? do you think it is holding a pencil or do you think it is getting ideas formulated and put down on paper? Answer When young learners first start writing, they have difficulty correctly holding a pencil and writing long words very complicated to write down. After passing that one, they will think about an idea formulated to write down on the paper, it might be hard for them but if they practice frequently they will develop gradually. Question 2 How did you learn from letters or characters in your native language? did you use fat crayons? did you use a brush? How would you teach a young learner from your country to form and print letters in English? Answer Yes I learn it, I use a pencil to do it. First I will show them how to write letters and characters on a whiteboard, and then write three sentences and practice it. Question 3 Think about the different types of writing assignments that you had whe...

  Question 1 What was one of your favorite books as a child? was it fiction or non-fiction? why did you like it? what is one of your favorite books today? it is fiction or non-fiction? why do you like it? did these books provide information or entertainment or a combination of both? Answer When I was a child I love books about Animals like mammals and dinosaurs, the book is non-fiction. I remember one book entitled 100 Knowledge about dinosaurs I very love them and I read it over and over at that time. and my favorite books for today are novel, technology, infrastructure, oceanography, and religion. I love them because there is a lot of information that makes me attractive to read them, and it entertains me at the same time when I read them. Question 2 When you were a child, what was your favorite story? Was it the story that was read to you or was it one that you read yourself? Who were the main characters? was it real or a made-up story? what made it interesting? Answer When I wa...

  Question 1 Make a list of 10 words that young children have difficulty pronouncing in their native language. how old are children who have trouble pronouncing these words? does this difficulty continue as children develop? are these English language phonemes or do these phonemes exist in English? how could you incorporate special attention to these sounds in your lesson? Answer Squirrel Rural Literally Temperature Straight sixth specific knee Massachusetts Rhythm They are difficult to say that because there is an alphabet deceiver but it is not mentioned in spelling as we pronounce nee k as missing and some words make their tongue stiff or loose when to spell these words. if they know how to pronounce it will be easy for them. and for phonemes id very important to know the meaning of the sound when it is spoken like on the age-mastered table in the book, and how I incorporated it by giving them an example from a video or me to giving a view them. Question 2 Look back at the ...

  Questions 1. Count the number of times that different sentence patterns are repeated? 2. Why would repeating sentences help young learners? Answer 1. Someone ate my porridge (it's repeated three times) 2. Because the repeating patterns could help the student to understand change and that things happened over time and are very easy to take by young learners, and then repeating the sentence frequently simplify by the decoding process for beginning, especially for young learners in the listening process make them easier to take the meaning.