STRUCTURED TASK (Teaching speaking to young learners)

Name : Leni Silviani
NIM  :  2109180105
CLASS 2A


1) Based on the theories you have learnt about teaching speaking to young learners, what is your firstly consideration on teaching them ?

 My consideration is we have to teach YL(s) with  conversation, song and any kinds of method that makes happy to learn. Because, the learning speaking is not only learning language but also doing of funny activity. Pronunciation is a good period for them to learn because 1-5 years is a golden periods. In teaching speaking to YL(s) we are not allowed to give them directly the theme of a lesson. The points to teach speaking are about Repetition and how to be a good model. In this golden ages, we have to give and correct the Spelling activity and become a good model for them.

2) Why can speaking be integrated with listening activities?

 Listening and speaking skills co-occur in real-life discourse and they are not mutually exclusive. Within this framework, this study is conducted to prove that teaching listening and speaking skills in integration improves oral communicative competence of the students. It is integrated because we can speak anything if we can hear something well. before we speak something, we need listen first.so, it is integrated.

3) From the practices of teaching speaking to young learners, choose one of them and please tell me about the procedures detail.

I choose song practice.
Teach the Song in Chunks While Adding Actions
If possible, I try to have the lyrics projected onto the board, or I will write the lyrics on the board before class. This is useful, even if the students’ reading level is low, so that students know where they are in the song.

Now is the time to get the students out of their seats. You are going to teach the song in chunks and add actions to it. This way, rather than just listening and repeating, they will be using TPR (total physical response) to learn the song.

Chunking means teaching a section of the song (e.g. one verse or just the chorus) at a time. Teach the section line by line adding actions as you go. Then, when you get to the end of the section, repeat it with the actions to make sure the student’s know and remember it.

Adding actions can be done in a few different ways. Either the teacher can have all of the actions pre-determined or it can be a collaborative process with the students. Personally, I prefer to come up with the actions with my students. So if the lyrics are about the sun coming up, I will sing the line with the students and inquisitively look around the room. I might give an example and when one of the students either copies or comes up with a different idea, I will praise them and have the whole class copy it. After a few actions, they will understand this and be actively coming up with dance moves for the song.