::2C:: Individual Task : EYL analysis based on Ytreberg (1990) book

Based on Scott and Ytreberg (1990)

1.      How are teacher’s characteristics to young learners?

Answer : A young learner’s teacher should have several kinds of abilities and attitudes to make a good and funny classroom atmosphere, there are sense of humor, adaptable, patient, creative, etc. A young learner’s teacher should master at least one ability to make an effective learning ability such as drawing, singing,etc, because everyone would agree that everyone or every student can singing everyone can drawing, and everyone can create a mime even though not in a correct ways or just a simple things of them.

2.      How do teachers build physical surrounding to YL?

Answer : young learner have a good response to a pleasant and familiar surrounding , so as a teacher we can put as much as possible on the walls – a calendar, posters, drawing, song lyrics, etc. Have a simple plants, animal figure, cartoon figure craft, and anything which add character to the room but still leave a space for you and learners to learning.

3.      How do teachers arrange the desk in YL classroom?

Answer : There a three types of desk arrangement, first you can put a 2 x 2 desk on your class, means you can group your student by form a square and make the face to face with the others, this type will make you teach the whole class easily and make your student talk to each other. Second, you can put the desk in a row, the students turn their backs to the teacher, this type is not effective if you want to teach about language. Last type is almost the same with previous type, but it’s more flexible and leave some space in the middle to make you easily walk around.

4.      How the teachers group the YL?

Answer : There are some kinds of type that the teachers can do for grouping their YL, First is by doing a pair work. As its name, pairwork means that the students work in pair, they sit face to face to each others, this type is very efficient in language teaching. Secondly is a groupwork method, even some most of  children didn’t love work in group, but you can introducing how to work in group. Teacher can start by having a teachin group which is teach separately from the rest of the class. In workgroup, you can limit numbers in the group between three to five children per group. Children should not allowed to choose their group because it will steal a lot of times.

5.      How is classroom language used in YL classroom ?

Answer :  teacher should tell a simple vocabularies or simple phrases to YL, for example you want to teach about ‘classroom utensil’, you showed a scissor then say “scissor” repeat 2 to 3 times and let your student repeat after you. Afterward, you can teach them a simple phrases such as “I’m sorry I don’t know” or “I don’t understand” and let the students repeat after you. Beside, you should speak English as much as possible and speak the mother tongue only if necessary.