Popular video cartoons and associated branded toys in teaching English to very young learners: A case study

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 568-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danijela Prosic-Santovac
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
The One

When teaching foreign languages to very young learners, motivation is an issue that needs to be taken into account even more than in the case of any other age group. Teaching materials and students’ textbooks used in schools and preschools, however carefully crafted, often fail to cater for the genuine interests of children and to invoke intrinsic motivation for learning. This article aims to examine whether centring teaching around authentic media material, such as popular cartoons, and the accompanying branded toys, affects the level of second language (L2) knowledge and motivation for learning. The ‘one environment – one language’ approach was developed for this case study, which focuses on the learning progression of one four-year-old during the period of 18 months. The results speak in favour of using this approach both in kindergarten settings, exploiting role play with playschool character toys, as well as in home settings, where family characters can be used to connect home and preschool environments.

scholarly journals PENGAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS UNTUK ANAK USIA DINI BEBERAPA HAL YANG HARUS DIPERHATIKAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Zobi Mazhabi
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
The Right

The need, awareness, and understanding about the early foreign languages teaching on young learners makes the education experts try to apply English learning and teaching as early as possible for students. Therefore, English has been introduced in formal educational institutions at the level of early childhood. This decision made experts have to consider several things in term of learning and teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) and early childhood as students when a foreign language is introduced and taught at the level of early childhood (young learners), then an understanding of how foreign language acquisition or second language on children (SLA) and learning and teaching foreign languages (Teaching English as Foreign Language / TEFL) in children needs to be understood and considered as a reference for conducting the learning process, so that good and appropriate learning methods can be formulated. In this article, the author tries to elaborate on the process of language acquisition in children (language acquisition), both in their first language (L1) and their second language (L2), as well as how an understanding of these can have a positive interfearence on the formulation and selection of the right method. in the process of learning and teaching English at the level of early childhoo.

scholarly journals Students' responses to teacher's requests in 'CraftEng'

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
József Gál ◽  
Noémi Vanderstein
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Crucial Point ◽  
Young Learners

In our running world, Teaching English as a Foreign Language for beginners is a crucial point of education. To motivate young learners is essential in life-long-leaming so it is important to find the best way of introducing foreign languages for children. The teachers have a number of methods and approaches in their hands to choose from in order to produce as many effective language users as possible. During the lessons - next to questions -, teachers use commands and requests to get the students to respond and to react to them. What is more, creative activities and games are popular among students. Schools work by different tactics to invite more and more learners to acquire second language in their institutions. 'CraftEng' is one of the new trends.

A CASE STUDY OF NL INFLUENCE IN UNIS FKIP ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS' INTERLANGUAGE

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
Irmala Sukendra ◽  
Agus Mulyana ◽  
Imam Sudarmaji
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Universal Grammar ◽  
Similar System ◽  
The One ◽  
L1 Acquisition

Regardless to the facts that English is being taught to Indonesian students starting from early age, many Indonesian thrive in learning English. They find it quite troublesome for some to acquire the language especially to the level of communicative competence. Although Krashen (1982:10) states that “language acquirers are not usually aware of the fact that they are acquiring language, but are only aware of the fact that they are using the language for communication”, second language acquisition has several obstacles for learners to face and yet the successfulness of mastering the language never surmounts to the one of the native speakers. Learners have never been able to acquire the language as any native speakers do. Mistakes are made and inter-language is unavoidable. McNeili in Ellis (1985, p. 44) mentions that “the mentalist views of L1 acquisition hypothesizes the process of acquisition consists of hypothesis-testing, by which means the grammar of the learner’s mother tongue is related to the principles of the ‘universal grammar’.” Thus this study intends to find out whether the students go through the phase of interlanguage in their attempt to acquire second language and whether their interlanguage forms similar system as postulated by linguists (Krashen).

scholarly journals Using Games as a Tool in Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Ameer Bakhsh
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Conventional Methods ◽  
Practical Implications

<p>Over the last few decades, teaching English become a phenomenon in Saudi Arabia, especially to young learners. English is taught as a main subject in kindergarten and elementary schools. Like any other children, Saudis accept new foreign languages easily, but they get bored very fast if the teacher is teaching them using the old conventional methods and techniques. The aim of this paper is to prove that games are effective tools when devised to explain vocabularies and they make it easier to remember their meanings. This paper deals with a literature review of teaching English vocabulary to young learners using games. Then it discusses the importance of using games in teaching vocabulary and in what way using them is helpful. After that it investigates the practical implications of using games to teach vocabulary that includes the implementation of vocabulary games and some examples of games that could be used to teach vocabulary to children. And finally it examines challenges teachers face when teaching vocabulary using games to young learners.</p>

scholarly journals THE APPLICATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 581
Author(s):  
Tiya Winola
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
The Media ◽  
Young Learner

In Indonesia, English is a foreign language, hence not easy to teach English to young learner in Indonesia, thus, need something interesting to teach English to young learners, one of which uses instructional media. Instructional media as a tool needed to facilitate the teachers in presenting the material, but many English teachers in Indonesia find it difficult to use instructional media in the classroom. This study aims to (1) how the teacher applied the instructional media in the classroom. (2) to investigate problems faced by the teacher, and (3) elaborate the teacher's strategies in solving problems using the instructional media. This study was conducted a case study design, by using observation and interviews to collect data. In the investigation teachers do not have free access to use the media provided at school. Thus, they faced obstacles to provide proper media in classroom. Therefore this paper described certain strategies to solve teacher problems in using instructional media in the class. Keywords:        Teaching English, Instructional media, Young learners

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Total Physical Response (TPR) on Teaching English to Young Learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
Rong Xie
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
English Education ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Physical Response ◽  
Authentic Environment ◽  
Potential Factors

This article through two teachers’ cases, namely, observation of two teachers’ classes and interview with them, interview with their students and their students’ parents, attempts to investigate the effectiveness of TPR as a classroom technique with young learners and to explore how teachers use TPR and to identify some of the challenges of using it in practice. All the findings are discussed referring back to the relevant literature review and context. The findings of observation indicate that the TPR technique is a good way on the basis of games, role-play, storytelling and pair works with the physical actions. It also finds some potential factors that contribute to TPR’s challenges in practice, such as the use of traditional method, training constraints, students’ low English proficiency, the lack of authentic environment and exam-oriented assessment. The findings from the various angles obtained seem to be very similar to those reported earlier by literature review. This study also makes a contribution to the existing literature in terms of the providing insights into the attitudes toward English education for parents or students, and the lack of parents’ supervision to some extent that they have influenced on the TPR. Importantly, through a systemic introduction of TPR in this study, it is useful to help future teachers to implement TPR methods into their young learner teaching. The results of this study can also help me to reflect on my own teaching approaches and support other teachers working in my college.

scholarly journals The Motivations of Learning Foreign Languages: A Descriptive Case Study of Polyglots

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noprival Noprival ◽  
Zainal Rafli ◽  
Nuruddin Nuruddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
Social Intercourse

Polyglots are extraordinary people in terms of language ability. Therefore, it is interesting to academically explore their motivations for learning several languages. This research is novel compared to previous studies because scant extant research exists of polyglots’ motivation for learning several languages. To this end, researchers collected data from semi structured interviews obtained from five informants. The method that we used was a descriptive case study. Findings showed that the polyglots’ motivation for learning multiple foreign languages were (a) pleasure, (b) social intercourse, (c) professional purposes, and (d) academic purposes. Mostly, the previous research revealed that motivation for people learning foreign languages were for social interaction, professional reasons, and academic purposes. Meanwhile, the motivation of polyglots for learning many languages besides those three motivations was for pleasure. This is the key point behind their commitment to sustainable multiple language learning.

A case study of teaching English as a second language in three rural primary classes

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Funke Omidire ◽  
Liesel Ebersöhn ◽  
Marisa Leask ◽  
Deslea Konza ◽  
Anna-Barbara du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Teaching English

scholarly journals Webquest-Based Role Play as a Way of Raising Students’ Motivation to Studying Foreign Languages

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Olga Sumtsova ◽  
Yuliya Azhel ◽  
Alina Buyankina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Technical Students

Abstract – Teaching English as a foreign language using modern Internet technologies is considered in the paper. A special attention is paid to the Webquest–based role play organized by means of up-to-date Internet technologies as an approach to raise technical students’ motivation to studying foreign languages. Emphasis is upon applying this approach to organizing conference weeks at National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). An overview of the Webquest–based role play activities is also given in the paper.

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