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8 Intrapersonal Intelligence
Intrapersonal is to act adaptively based on knowledge. It can be looked when children show strong will and a freedom attitude.
3. Young Learner Characteristics
Suyanto 2007, p.16 describes that young learners are children about 5 to 7 years old. Suyanto 2007 states that the characteristics of young learners are
egocentric, imaginative, active, and self-centered person p.16. They often adapt what they learn to what they like to do. They have difficulties to differentiate
between abstract and concrete. They are interested in fun-things. They have short time concentration and focus so that they get bored easily. They love everything
cheerful and colorful. They love to interact and talk about what they do. They are active thinkers.
Additionally, Philips 1993 emphasizes that the characteristics of young learners’ who are learning a foreign language:
They are more holistic learners, great mimics maker, unselfconscious, respond to the meaning underlying the language used and to language
according to what it does or what they can do with it, and do not worry about individual words or sentences p. 5.
Moreover, Foster 1959 describe that the characteristic of five-year-old students are learning rapidly p. 12. They want to find out about things and know
how things work, get into everything, have curiosity as in the weight, strength,
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taste, and smell of all sort of materials. Moreover, they investigate, examine, and question things. They also desire to check their potency and show their ability.
Philips 1993 adds that kinds of activities that work well in foreign language learning are games and songs with actions, total physical response
activities, tasks that involve coloring, cutting, and sticking, simple, repetitive stories, and simple, repetitive speaking activities that have a clear communicative
value p. 5. The young learner characteristics which are presented above are relevant
for the nature of game. Therefore, in this study, the researcher designs a game as medium for teaching English to the students of TK Kanisius Kotabaru,
Yogyakarta , because it is suitable for young learner characteristics, such as the
students’ interest in doing fun things Suyanto, 2007.
4. Teaching Vocabulary
