english & children are not nightmare

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English and Children areNOT Nightmares

Asep Taufik Gunawan


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I am afraid of

English not my mother-tongue

too many rules hard to be mastered

Children

have special characteristics


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Do You Want to Teach English in

Elementary Level?

No, Thanks...


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Why?

Teaching English for young learners needs aspecial requirement. They want to teach in a higher level, such asJunior High or Senior High.Teaching young learners has a bigresponsibility.

Becoming English teacher in Elementaryschool gets a small salary. Becoming an English teacher in Elementaryschool is not challenging.


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Backgrounds

Only a few English Education students

who want to be an English teacher forElementary level. Elementary level needs many Englishteachers. English teachers can be anyone.


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Research Method

Qualitative Approach Descriptive Method

Participants: 4 English Teachers, 3Headmasters, 20 English EducationProgram students. Data Collection: observation check-list,

interview transcript, and writtendocumentsquestionnaire.
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Basic Requirements of

Elementary School EnglishTeachers

understand about the management of learning,understand about young learners characteristics, having good personal characteristics, having willingness to teach English, having an educational background,

having a supporting system from school, and having a supporting system from the government.


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Understand about theManagement of Learning

giving enough times for students inresponding their questions,

giving a clear instruction and examplebefore students start the activity, using several media, providing some jokes in order thatstudents feel more comfortable, and asking students to work in pairs or ingroups.


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Understand about Young Learners

Characteristics

children have their own way, children learn by the way of physical activities,

children have relatively short attention and concentration

span, children should have a great deal of exposure to,engagement in, and support for the language they are learning,

children will learn best when learning is kept whole,

meaningful, interesting, and functional, children tend to learn holistically, in the form of scripts, a teacher should be a good model for students, and

children are often learn indirectly rather than directly.


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Having Good Personal

Characteristics

patient

having a low personality knowing the position (being ateacher/friends)

loving childrens world


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Having Willingness to TeachEnglish

having desire to be an Englishteacher want to learn more


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Having an EducationalBackgrounds

Should be the same,

OR NOT ?


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Having a Supporting System from

School

supervising the teaching process

evaluating the teaching process paying attention

giving opportunities to increase the

quality of teaching


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Having a Supporting System fromthe Government

The government should clarify and specify aboutthe regulation of English teachers in Elementaryschool.

The education department organizes the seminars,workshops, and trainings in teaching English foryoung learners. Give a clear explanation about the important of

professional teacher in Elementary school. Give a bigger salary.Give a limited responsibility. (One teacher

supervises only for three different grades.)


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If you can read this sentence,

Say thanks to your teachersStiker Bember

Being an English teacher in

Elementary School,WHY NOT?

english & children are not nightmare

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