Listen and sequence Theoretical Review

24 will guess and explain their thought about something while the teacher listens. g Suggestopedia: in the suggestopedia, the physical surroundings and atmosphere of the classroom are important. The teaching learning process can be increased when students are comfortable, confident and relax. The students have a special relationship as parent-children to make the class atmosphere friendlier. h Total Physical Response TPR: TPR is a method of teaching language using physical movement to react to verbal input. The teacher gives commands to students in the target language, and students respond it with actions. The teacher usually gives an oral command with the example of actions before shehe asks the students to repeat it. For example, the teacher says “open the door” and shehe will do it. After watching, children will respond by doing the instruction given by the teacher. i Theme Based Teaching: theme-based teaching can link many different activities together by their content; the theme or topic runs through everything that happens in the classroom and acts as a connecting thread for pupils and teacher. Cameron 2005: 181 said, “Teaching that is integrated around a theme is claimed to better suit the way that young children naturally learn.” Moreover, theme-based teaching can be used in large or small amounts, and in varying concentrations. In concentrated form, and in skilled hands, it could replace course book and syllabus altogether. More practically, it could be adopted for one or two lessons in a 25 week, or for several weeks in a term, to supplement other work, and to help teachers build up the skills and knowledge that are demanded. Based on the explanation above, theme-based teaching is the appropriate method for this research study. This method will not make the students get bored because it can accommodate a large numbers of students and link some activities.

c. The Difficulties in Listening for Young Learners

Listening has an importance role in the process of learning English. Young learners usually spend much of their time listening to understand the message or opinion in order to respond it. Scott and Ytreberg 1993: 21 argue that “listening is the skill that children acquire first, especially if they have not yet learnt to read”. Among the four skills, foreign language learners often complain that listening is the most difficult to acquire. Brewster et al. 2002:98 say that “listening to a foreign language is hard work, especially for young children”. Additionally, listening is a skill which learners usually find it as the most difficult. It often happens because they feel under unnecessary pressure to understand every word. Moreover, listening is often neglected in language teaching. Lack of teaching materials, equipment, and training in how to use the equipment are some reasons why listening is neglected. Furthermore, different speakers produce the same sounds in different ways is one of the example why listening is difficult for young learners.