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3. Qualitative definition related to ideal quality of the outcome. In this
definition, teaching means the facilitation of learning. Teachers interact to their students in a specific ways adjusted to the qualitative concept; this
is intended to encourage students learning to create their own meaning and understanding.
Based on the definitions stated above, it can be concluded that teaching is an activity done by teachers do the learning process including giving instruction,
giving skill, and transferring knowledge intended to make pupils understanding the learning subjects. A good teaching will fulfill or facilitate the learners
need and lead them to a better understanding of the subjects. Therefore, teaching requires teachers to create a better learning process by adjusting
their teaching technique to the real condition of their students. This can help students accepting knowledge transferred by their teacher.
B. Good Teachers
To teach English perfectly, there are some requirements that must be owned by the teachers. According to Harmer 1998:3, he has interviewed some students
who come from the different nationalities studying private language in Britain, and secondary school students studying at a Cambridge comprehensive school.
The purpose of this activity is to know what requirements that must be owned a teacher in order to be a good teacher. He adds that a teacher should make his her
lesson interesting. A teacher must love their job, if shehe enjoys herhis job that’ll make lesson more interesting. Teacher has hisher own personality and doesn’t
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hide it from the students so that he is not only a teacher but a person as well and it comes through the lessons, a teacher has to have a lot of knowledge not only of
his subject, a good teacher is an entertainer and has a positive sense.
C. The Definition of Young Learners
According to Philips 1993:5Young learners means children from the first year of formal schooling five or six years old to eleven or twelve
years of age . From this definition, we can conclude that the young learners may come from the kindergarten, elementary, and the seventh grade of the junior high
school. Meanwhile, Cameron 2001:4, he said that the very important of the child as an active learner and thinker, constructing his or her knowledge from working
with objects or ideas. According to Brumfit, Moon and Tongue 1997:vi in their book,
Introduction Teaching English to Young Learner, young learners have more opportunities than adult do. They are learning all the time without having the
worries and responsibilities of adults; their parents, friends and teachers all help them in learning.
It is considered that people will be better to start learning second language in the early age. According to Wendy A. Scot and Lisbeth H. Ytreberg 1990:3,
the adult world and the child’s world are not the same. Children, in this case children from five to seven years old, do not always understand what adults are
talking about and adults do not always understand what children are talking about. The difference is that adults usually find out by asking question, but children
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do not always ask. Meanwhile, children from eight to ten years old relatively mature children with adult side and childish
From the definition above, it can be concluded that children in the process of learning seek out the purpose and intentions by seeing in what other people do,
bring their knowledge and experience to their efforts to make sense of other’s people action and language. In addition, children are active sense maker but their
sense making is very limited by their experience which shows as a key to understand how the children respond to tasks and activities in the language
classroom.
D. Teaching English to Young Learners
