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By completing a task, the students have a great opportunity to treat their second language acquisition and knowledge.
Based on the fact that a set of vocabulary materials for young learners which uses task-based learning is still rarely used, the writer would like to design
a set of English instructional materials to teach vocabulary for the second grade of elementary school students, who are still considered as young learners using Task-
Based Learning. The result of the study hopefully can be used to enrich the existing materials and can fulfill students’ needs in learning vocabulary especially
children in the second grade of elementary school.
B. Problem Identification
Dealing with children, teacher should understand that they are easily disturbed and difficult to concentrate. Children prefer to do whatever they want to
do than to listen to the teacher’s explanation. Teacher’s explanation is considered boring. Once students get bored, they start to ignore the lesson. Thus, it is
important to avoid boredom and keep students’ attention to learn English. Designing interesting materials which are expected to build students’
interest and motivation is important. Combining attractive activities which emphasizes on vocabulary mastery by giving the students interesting tasks is to
reduce students’ boredom and to build their motivation in learning English. Therefore, the activities and the tasks should be simple and easy to be understood
by children.
C. Problem Limitation
The focus of this research is on designing a set of English vocabulary materials for children in the second grade of elementary school using Task-Based
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Learning. The materials hopefully provide activities and tasks that are suitable with the mental growth of children in the second grade of elementary school. The
second grade of Kanisius Notoyudan elementary school students are chosen, since this school starts to teach English in the kindergarten level. To know the students’
needs, interests, difficulties, and also abilities that should be developed, the writer distributed questionnaires to ten English instructors who teach young learners in
the elementary school from the first up to third grades, interviewed English instructors to gather information about their way to teach and did class
observation to get the experience in teaching young learners in the second grade of elementary school.
D. Problem Formulation
Dealing with designing the English instructional materials for teaching English vocabulary to the second grade of elementary school using Task-Based
Instruction, the problems in this study can be formulated as follows: 1.
How is a set of vocabulary instructional materials using Task-Based Learning for the second grade of Kanisius Notoyudan elementary
school students designed? 2.
What does the designed set of vocabulary instructional materials using Task-Based Learning for the second grade of Kanisius Notoyudan
elementary school students look like?
E. Research Objectives
