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Senin, 04 Agustus 2014
CHARACTERISTIC
OF YOUNG LEARNERS
Some
people say that children always get bored when learning material but the other
hand people say that children always forgetful and not consentration. It is
true.....?? The children have their own characteristics, which are different from
adults. The characteristics cover their ways of thinking, their attitude, their
aptitude, et cetera. They also prevail to the children’s ways of learning
language. This, of course, influences the ways of teaching them. To give the
best quality of teaching English to the children, the teachers should know and
understand them. So I can give you explanation about the characteristic of
young learners.
At
the first, the physical of young children is dominant, movement
and activity as much as stimulation for their thinking. Their
understanding comes through hands and ears, Children respond the language well
through concrete things (visual things) rather than abstract things.
Second, they know whatever their listen and their touch. Young learners perform
physical activity in many ways such as colouring, drawing and writing. They
always do it in many time because beginning their schooling and
it is a simple activity which their do. They have limited writing and
reading skills even in their first language. And the last, they are at the developing stage
critical period.
On
the other hand the social side of young lerners is diffrent at the first, they
are happy playing and working in the company, children like to work together and the
children need activities that are more concrete rather than abstract and to be
involved in those activities in order that they can learn the language well.
Second, they are aware of themselves in relation or other. Their learning can
be closely linked with their development of ideas and concepts and they are
more concerned about themselves then others.
From the
psychology side the children have a many characteristic such as : They have
short concentration span, Children have a ready imagination,
children words are full of imagination and fantasy, and it is more than simply
matter of enjoyment. They are free of prejudice. They get bored easly
Children have no choice to attend school , the lack
of the choice means that class activities need to be fun interesting and
exciting as possible by setting up the interesting activitie . They are
forgetfull “repeat material many times”. They like imitating, they have limited knowledge about the
world.They have high curiosity and They are risk taker. They are less shy than
older learners.
The other
characteristic of young leraners at the first, Their first languange is not
fully developed. Second, they need to develop their native language. Third,
They don’t need linguistic knowledge, children have no real linguistics, different
from the adult learners that already have certain purpose in learning language,
for instances, to have a better job, children rarely have such needs in
learning a foreign language. They learn subject what school provide for them. And the
last, they learn language for communication (how) not the rules (what). Young
children are still using their individual, innate language-learning strategies
to acquire their home language and soon find they can also use these strategies
to pick up English. Children have time to learn through play-like activities.
They pick up language by taking part in an activity shared with an adult. They
firstly make sense of the activity and then get meaning from the adult’s shared
language.
Young
learners have more time to fit English into the daily programme. School
programmes tend to be informal and children’s minds are not yet cluttered with
facts to be stored and tested. They may have little or no homework and are less
stressed by having to achieve set standards. Children who have the opportunity
to pick up a second language while they are still young appear to use the same
innate language-learning strategies throughout life when learning other
languages. Picking up third, fourth, or even more languages is easier than
picking up a second.
Children who
acquire language rather than consciously learn it, as older children and adults
have to, are more likely to have better pronunciation and feel for the language
and culture. When monolingual children reach puberty and become more
self-conscious, their ability to pick up language diminishes and they feel they
have to consciously study English through grammar-based programmes. The age at
which this change occurs depends greatly on the individual child’s
developmental levels as well as the expectations of their society.
In conclusion, however children
need to understand what it means to learn, who they are as learners, and how to
go about planning, monitoring and revising, to reflect upon their learning and
that of others, and to learn how to determine if they understand. These
metacognitive skills provide strategic competencies for learning.
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