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2.4.4 Teaching Listening to Young learner
It is clear that young children listen first before they can speak, write or read. By listen they will learn the system of the language. In addition Philips says
that listening task are extremely important in the primary language classroom, providing a rich source of language data from which the children begin to build up
their own idea of how the language works 1993: 15. From that assumption we can conclude that listening benefit most, moreover if it is start as early as possible.
Because young children will only acquire the language they hear around them. In order to make them learn better they need hear a lot of English.
Teaching listening to young learners is challenging. They have short attention span and bored easily. In teaching listening skill, we as a teacher need to
support children’s understanding more effectively. In order to make that happen we should direct the pupils’ attention to specific points that have to be listened by
using activities that actively support young learner’s understanding and guide their attention to specific part of the spoken text.
In line with the explanation above, Linse says that 2006: 25 in order to make the language learning comprehensible to all learners especially young
learner; teacher should try to present information using all three channels. Those three channels are: auditory, tactile and visual. In general, auditory learners are
better to learn material when it is presented in an auditory format, such as listening to someone reading a story aloud. Visual learners often recall visual
images or pictures easily. Tactile learners are better to remember information, language, and content when they have physically manipulated or touched
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information. All learners may use a combination of these three channels. By using these three channels children will have an imagination about what they have
learned. Those imaginations will help them to memorize the lesson so that they acquire the language easily.
Teaching listening to young learners is not easy. Teacher needs to ensure that the materials given are comprehensible to the students as well as within the
range of what they are developmentally ready for. Students can be stressful in this listening process. This is also teacher’s task to maximize the potential for
acquisition of language and make variation in technique to avoid students’ boredom.
2.5 Teaching Listening through Storytelling
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