Identification of The Problem
National Education Department established that Indonesian learners must be able to comprehend and give expression to information, thought, feelings,
developing science, technology, and culture by using English. The function of English is to communicate in order to access information and as a tool of
interpersonal relation as well as changing information. Young children learn best through activities that suit with their lives,
various, challenging and engaging. Children develop their knowledge by building on their past experiences and learn with they have acquired. Because most of the
children believe that learning is pleasurable experience, they are naturally inclined and even more enthusiasm to learn when the first time they come in school.
Each child grows and develops in every interrelated area moral, social, emotional, cognitive, physic and linguistic. In order to develop children’s needs,
kindergarten’s programs must provide a chance for learning, self-expression, and self-discovery in a variety of areas – for example; in games, drama, music,
language activities, and cooperative activities with peers. Children develop in different rates and in different ways. Each child is
unique and has individuall needs. Some children will benefit one type learning strategy than another; some probably need more time than others, and need more
additional resources, to achieve learning expectations. To make a good and effective English Day program,set of English teaching
learning programs in needed to run the program. Therefore, it is important to produce English materials, which help the teachers and the children to learn
English. Set of teaching learning programsare needed to design fun, visual,
creative, contextual, and effective activities to learn English, which involve children and give them many chances to practice English in the activities in a fun
atmosphere. Also the children can acquire English well in an easy and interesting way.
This study tries to design English teaching learning programs for children in TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan Bantul. By providing the programs, the researcher
expects that the kindergarten children will involve in the teaching – learning process; they learn best through activities that suit with their lives and various,
challenging and engaging they will have many chances to explore and practice their English and also to be familiar with English.