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2. Teaching Video to Young Learners
Compared with other teaching tools, such as audio tapes, textbooks, and the basic blackboard, video is a relatively new option for the language teacher. In
the twenty years or so since then, video has become an even more widely available teaching aid, although its penetration into everyday classroom practice
and course or syllabus design hasn’t been as deep as many had anticipated. According to Tomalin http:en.wikipedia.orgwikibenefits accessed on
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2010, some benefits of using video to teach young learner are: 1 Young learner enjoy language learning with video. One of the aims of teaching
English to young learner is to instil in them the idea that language learning is a happy experience, and video creates an attractive enjoyable environment.
2 Video is an effective way of studying body language. Younger language learners are still learning about the world around them.
3 Young learner gain confidence through repetition. Young learner love to hear stories again and again and the same goes for video. By watching a video
several times young learner can learn by absorption and imitation. 4 Video communicates meaning better than other media. Video presents
language in context in ways that a cassette can’t. Young learner can see who is or what is speaking, where the speakers are, what they are doing, etc. All these
visual clues can help comprehension. 5 Video represents a positive exploitation of technology. Young learner have a
positive attitude towards television and video. It is seen as being “modern” compared to books.
Other benefits of using video in teaching and learning process are: 1 Teacher just need to download video through the internet.
2 By using video, students can get benefit of audio and visual supports at the same time to catch the whole message.
3 Video also can help the teacher to avoid general problems in the classroom, like boredom, wearness and falling to understand the relevance of the
information.
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Based on the explanation above, teaching young learners is hard. Before deciding to become a teacher of young learner, everyone should recognize that the
children are different to adult. Teacher can create activities which can be attracted by using the video. Video gives young learners an opportunity to acquire new
vocabulary and react to what they have heard and have seen. That is why video is a very good way of stimulating young learners in learning process.
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