scholarly journals Multiple intelligence assessment in teaching English for young learners

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernawati Ernawati ◽  
Hana Tsurayya ◽  
Abdul Rahman A. Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Document Analysis ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Multiple Intelligence ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Intelligence Assessment ◽  
Learning English

There are many schools in Indonesia that provide English as one of their subjects. English has been taught from elementary schools, even in Kindergarten. Ironically, teaching English in most rural schools still uses a conventional method such as memorizing and translating. Many teachers cannot afford to provide well-designed, meaningful exercises for students to use on a one-to-one learning basis. As a result, students seem not having interest in learning English. Based on this reason, this study was conducted to identify students’ intelligence through Multiple Intelligence Assessment to get effective approach in teaching English for young learners. The participants are an English teacher and students at an early childhood education center. This research focuses on presenting a deep description of the Multiple-Intelligence assessment to identify students’ intelligence in order to get an effective way of teaching English for young learners. In collecting the data, three instruments were used: observation, interview, and document analysis. The findings of this study show that students have different interests and nature; some students love singing, some others enjoy drawing, and others like role-playing. Multiple-Intelligence Assessment helps the teachers to identify students’ interests and bring them building some learning activities to attract them in learning English.

scholarly journals Creating Full English Atmosphere in Teaching English to Young Learners: Teachers’ Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-370
Author(s):  
Annisa Astrid ◽  
Amalia Hasanah ◽  
Syafryadin Syafryadin
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Questionnaire Item ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

The research had two objectives; 1) to explore teachers’ belief about the use of full English during learning activities, and 2) to determine the factors that affected the use of full English in teaching English to teach English to young learners. Embedded mixed method was used in this study. The quantitative data were gained by distributing 1 set of closed-response questionnaire item to 38 teachers of English who teach English at elementary schools in Palembang, a capital city of South Sumatera Province, Indonesia. Meanwhile, the qualitative data were gained from one-to-one in depth interview to 15 teachers of English who were willing to be interviewed. Students’ responses to each questionnaire item were analyzed by using descriptive statistics analysis by Employing SPSS program. Meanwhile, the qualitative data gained from the interview were analyzed by using thematic analysis. It was revealed from the study that first, teachers shared positive belief about the use of full English while teaching English in the class. Secondly, there are five factors that affected the use of full English during learning activities; 1) The English Proficiency of the teachers; 2) School Policy; 3) The homogeneous level of students’ language performance 4) Teacher’s classroom management skills and 5) Students’ attitude toward English.

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HOTS IN TEACHINGENGLISHPROCESS AT TENTH GRADE OF MTI PASIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-130
Author(s):  
Sesmiyanti Sesmiyanti ◽  
Melyann Melani
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
School Year ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Face To Face Learning

This research was conducted because HOTS is a significant factor in achieving the learning process in accordance with the 2013 curriculum, HOTS is a solution that students become active and participatory in the learning process, teachers not only explain learning in front of the class, but students must be more active to describe the problems that were found during learning, therefore, the researcher wanted to investigate how the HOTS process was implemented in teaching English at X grade of  MTI Pasia in the 2019/2020 school year. The purpose of this research to know how the English teacher at X grade of MTI Pasia apply HOTS in Teaching english process, especially in developing productive and receptive skills according to the level of critical thinking.This type of this research was a qualitative descriptive study, the instruments of this study were documentation (document analysis) and observation sheets to collected the data. The subjects in this study was X grade English teachers at MTI Pasia in the 2019/2020 academic year. The results of this study obtained from the document analysis and observation sheets found that, the English teacher at  X  gradeof MTI pasia did not apply HOTS in teaching English and learning process. The English teacher only applied HOTS to the learning design, it was not apply to the process in learning, this happened not because it was caused by online learning due to COVID 19 pandemic, but it was happened because the teacher did not encourage learning to be effective during thepandemic, the teacher should still be able to improved the learning process using technological advances,even though it was still a long of perfection than face-to-face learning.

scholarly journals The Use of Cue Card in Cooperative Learning for Teaching Vocabulary

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-135
Author(s):  
Parmi Parmi
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Grade Student ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Case Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Learning English

Vocabulary is the basic of English that is very important and difficult to master. Vocabulary will help students to master the four skills of language. Therefore, teacher have to make creative and interesting a way for teaching vocabulary.This study concern about how cue card and cooperative learning is used for teaching vocabulary. This study focused on theuse cue card as learning media and cooperative learning as learning method. The subject of this study was seven grade student of SMP N 41 Semarang. The aim of this study was to describe the implementation of cue card with cooperative learning in teaching vocabulary to the students in the classroom. This study was a qualitative case research. The observation, questionnaire, interview, and document analysis was used to collect the data. The questionnaire was given at the end of the study. The observation sheet used to monitor the students and teacher’s activities during the teaching learning process. The intrview was done at the end of the meeting.Based on the result, the researcher concluded that the use of cue card for teaching English vocabulary is interesting, effective, efficient, and arffordable. In addition, cooperative learning was helpfull to increase the student’s confidence.   Keywords: Cue Card, Cooperative Learning, English Vocabulary

scholarly journals USING CHAIN MASSAGE GAME TO SUPPORT YOUNG LEARNERS’ VAK LEARNING STYLE

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Yella Dezas Perdani
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Effective Activity ◽  
Young Learner

This research discusses the involving chain massage to accommodate young learners' learning style in which is conducted at grade 4 of one elementary school in Bandung. The aim of this research are (1) involving chain massage games in teaching English to the young learner, especially in grade 4 of an elementary school in Bandung, (2) finding out teacher’s and children’s responses toward the implementation of chain message in TEYL. This research uses a qualitative study where there are 40 students and one English teacher as the participants. The findings of this study show that chain messages can be considered as an effective activity of TEYL.The children seem to learn English more excitedly by game. With regard to the teacher, chain message game creates classroom activities more interesting and joyful because the children’s are involved in. Moreover, this game is also support different learning style of the children, visual, auditory and kinesthetic. However, the teachers found some obstacles in implementing the technique because they still children who easily get bored.

TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE DAN AUDIO LINGUAL METHOD DALAM BIMBINGAN BELAJAR BAHASA INGGRIS

DEVOSI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Aina Diah Vika ◽  
Heri Yusup
Keyword(s):  
Learning Activities ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
Flash Cards ◽  
Physical Response ◽  
Practice Questions ◽  
Learning English

In this era of globalization, more and more developments are taking place in this country. More and more foreign companies are established in Indonesia, so English is an important language that must be learned. The implementation of the activity is teaching English using the Total Physical Response and Audio Lingual Method at SD Islam Plus Al-Marzukiyah. Which in learning activities uses learning media such as audio and flash cards. Then given practice questions related to the material that has been taught. By using the Total Physical Response and Audio Lingual methods in learning English, SDI Plus Al-Marzukiyah students are more active and enthusiastic in learning English in class. They are also more enthusiastic about learning and prefer English lessons even though some of them are still in the process of getting used to learning English.

scholarly journals TPACK FRAMEWORK: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN EFL CLASSROOMS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lita Liviani Taopan
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Curriculum And Instruction ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Dynamic Framework ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) is a dynamic framework for defining teachers' knowledge. This framework is needed for designing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum and instruction with technology. TPACK framework was firstly developed by Shulman (1986) and then expanded by Mishra & Koehler (2006) by adding the technology element. The purpose of this inquiry is to explore and retell the story of an English teacher using the TPACK framework for teaching English. More specifically, the study is intended to know the challenges and the opportunities in using the TPACK framework in teaching English. A narrative inquiry with the thematic analysis used for analyzing the data. To collect the data, the researcher used a semi-structured interview, observation, and document analysis. The participant was an experienced English Teacher in a high school in Indonesia. The study revealed that technology integration in teaching English is quite complicated. The teacher deals with challenges like IT literate, internet connection, and lack of ideas to create meaningful tasks using technology. Otherwise, technology integration offers some opportunities such as a pleasant and flexible classroom, motivate students and teacher to improve themselves and various opportunities to develop the multimodal product. This finding is a useful input related to the EFL research on technology integration. 

scholarly journals THE PREPARATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS AT SDN BAROS MANDIRI 3 CIMAHI

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 414
Author(s):  
Silfia Ayuningtias ◽  
Evie Kareviati
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study has two purposes, the first is describing how the teacher’s preparation the instructional media and the second one is explaining how the teacher’s utilized the instructional media in teaching English to young learners. This study was conducted in SDN Baros Mandiri 3 Cimahi at fifth-grade students. To collect the data the researcher used observation in the classroom and interview with the English teacher. This method used a descriptive qualitative. The result of this study showed that in preparing the instructional media the teacher did two kinds of preparation. The English teacher’s stated that the preparation was: first, selecting the suitable instructional media related to the material that will be taught. Second, mastering the material for delivering to students. The instructional media used by the English teacher’s is flashcards, the English teacher’s stated that flashcards are mostly because it doesn’t need a lot of preparation. Flashcards are also useful to help the teacher in the learning process because the students can visualize the words through seen at the flashcards. The use of flashcards also easy, the teacher only needs to show one by one of the pictures to all students and they would be guessed the name of the pictures related to the material, students who can guess will come to the front of the class and write down the word in English.

scholarly journals Integrating Fairy Tales into Reading Class: Do They Catch Young Learners’ Reading Interest?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-138
Author(s):  
Romdanih Romdanih ◽  
Eny Yuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Reading Interest

The aim of the present research is to investigate how fairy tales attract young learners’ interest in reading. Qualitative approach with ethnography method was applied. The participants involved consisted of 30 fifth graders and an English teacher of a public elementary school in Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia. The data were collected through observation, interview, and document analysis. The data were analyzed using data reduction, description, and verification. The finding demonstrated that fairy tales are proven to catch the young learners’ reading interest as they provide imaginative and enchanting content. By way of addition, it was indicated that affective and cognitive factors influence the students’ reading interest.

scholarly journals ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR YOUNG LEARNERS IN FIVE KINDERGARTENS IN INDRAMAYU

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Natalia Anggrarini
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Developmental Level ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
The World ◽  
Teacher Needs ◽  
Learning Through Play ◽  
Interesting Learning ◽  
Dominant Activity

Childhood Education essentially aims at providing stimulation in all aspects of child development especially in language development. This study is attempted to investigate activities in teaching English vocabulary to young learners. To provide good education in early childhood the teacher has to understand their characteristics and know their needs according to their developmental level. In accordance with the world of early childhood, children learn through play (learning through play) and interesting learning process for them (playing is learning).Thus, the teacher needs to provide activities that meet the students needs and present them in a proper way. This study describes the activities done by teachers in five kindergartens in Indramayu. The participants in this study were five teachers in those five kindergartens. The findings showed that the teachers in five kindergartens in Indramayu taught vocabulary by presenting some activities such as; listen and do, listen and repeat, modeling and demonstration, singing song, look and say, listen and identify, and question and answer. In Grade A the dominant activity was Listen and Repeat with frequency 40% in one semester while in Grade B, Look and say was the dominant activity with frequency 30,76% in one semester. Those activities are done based on the consideration that the activities done in Grade A were emphasized on their level of development such as imitating. While children in Grade B were more developed, the activities were emphasized on recognizing word and learn to pronounce it clearly.

scholarly journals Teacher's Reinforcement in Teaching English at High School Level

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Dian Frahesti ◽  
Harum Natasha
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Level ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Token Reinforcement ◽  
High School Level ◽  
Verbal Reinforcement ◽  
Interest And Motivation ◽  
Learning English

This study aims to determine the teacher's reinforcement in teaching English at the high school level. This is important to do because strengthening is one of the strategies that teachers can apply in increasing interest and motivation to learn to achieve satisfactory student achievement. This research uses qualitative methods with descriptive techniques. In data collection, researchers conducted interviews and observations on teachers of SMA Islam Negeri 2 Kuantan Singingi to determine the components of reinforcement used by teachers in learning English. The results of this study indicate that the English teacher uses verbal and non-verbal reinforcement in learning English. For verbal reinforcement, the teacher uses reinforcement with words and reinforcement with sentences. For non-verbal reinforcement, the teacher uses gesture reinforcement, closeness strengthening, contact strengthening, activity reinforcement, and token reinforcement. The reinforcement most often used by teachers in teaching English was reinforcement with words, while the reinforcement that was rarely used by teachers was token reinforcement.

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