Teaching to Young Learners (TEYL)

What is the Young Learner? Young learner, it's a term that generally refers to children in the pre-school (First time of formal school), we called it "Kindergarten" with the age range is 5-7 years. But, sometimes in Indonesia, have pre-school for children that the age range is under 5 years old, it's somewhere between 2-4 years. The young learner, mostly they have limited knowledge, but they enjoy fantasy. Their also more concerned about themselves, but with a lower level of self-awareness. Developmental stages of learners Infancy (First 12 Months of Life), they communicated with crying to show they needed. Second is, toddlers (1–3 Years of Age/Pre-primary school), have short attention spans, are easily distracted, egocentric in their thinking, aren’t amenable to the correction of their ideas and also, they believe their perceptions to be a reality. The third is, early childhood (4–5 Years of Age/Kindergarten), during this period, they learning through interactions wi...

Hello, long time no see! Welcome back, with me!!!! So, for my first blog in this semester, I've got my first assignment from the subject "Teaching English to Young Learners",  I have to make some blog to share my experience in teaching young learners. First of all, I never have experience teaching English for young learners, besides my own little sister and then it's not my routine too, it's kinda rarely I teach my lil' sister. So, I think I don't really have much experience with that. And also, I just feel like, I can't really teach young learners. I thought that "When I try to teach the young learners, it must be feeling so awkwardly", it because I don't know how to teach the young learners properly, like the right ways, method, or approach. But actually, I want to learn more about that 😊 And based on the article what I've done read before, there are some tips that should be prepared to help us when teaching the young learners; Mak...