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H. Assumptions and limitations
Media have important roles in helping children develop meaningful language. Here are some assumptions for developing talking puppet as learning
media: 1 Teachers can use the talking puppets media to help them in teaching-
learning process everywhere because talking puppets does not need any electricity.
2 The talking puppets facilitate the students’ imagination since this media includes moving object that can stimulate the student to explore their
imagination. Besides all of those assumptions this learningmedia also have limitation:
1.
This media was only handmade so the durability of this media is not as
good as a factory production.
2.
This learning media only useful to teach listening for young learners especially in grade 5.
3.
This learning media only designed to teach listening to young learners.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
In this chapter, terms and concepts that are used in the discussion are presented. There are two parts of which the writer presents in this chapter. They
are literature review and conceptual framework.
A. Literature Review
1. Teaching English to Young learners
According to Brewster and Ellis 2003:1, “Children learn languages better and more easily than older.”, furthermore, Pinter 2011:49 said that,” Children
are believed to be more successful second language learners than adults” It can be concluded there is a widespread belief that there are lots of advantages to
introducing language learning in early age. Moreover, Brewster and Ellis 2003:3 said that, “Starting to learn a foreign language several years earlier was simply to
increase the total number of years spent in learning the language, especially at age six or nine instead of eleven or twelve.”
Other reasons of teaching English to young learners was the belief that young children seem to have a better facility and they are good in imitating what
they hear and what they see than secondary school students. In Indonesia, young
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