c Story When students are facing the fascinating of the storytelling, they are
just waiting for the story to be told until the last telling to get the ending of the story. During the listening to the story, they absolutely listen every
single word that tracks them to the way of the story. It is helpful for they will absorb the words naturally from listening.
2. Young Learners
The term “Young learners” in this study is defined as children in the age of six until twelve years old.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Literature Review
1.
Young Learner
According to Phillips, The Young Learner means the first year children of formal schooling five or six years old to eleven or twelve years of age.
1
Another thought about who young learners are comes from Caroline stated that young learners are children between ages of 5-12.
2
However, the children ’s
ages do not define how mature they are. There could be some aspects of life that influence children maturity, such as their culture, environment city or rural, sex,
expectation of friends and parents.
3
In educational world, it is well known that young learners are capable to learn everything gradually and continually. Piaget’s theory said that the knowledge that
is produced from children is not from imitating activity process or in-born, but children actively construct it.
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Therefore the educational modern program puts a concern to the young learners especially in the primary school.
As people cannot predict how mature the students in classroom by their ages, whatever the type of activities and approach a teacher decides to use in classroom
will be all influenced by teacher’s knowledge of students’ attitudes, circumstances, and interests.
Besi des students’ maturity, teachers also need to concern on their basic
physical and psychological needs. Therefore, the care necessary and appropriate instruction to meet these needs should be provided by teacher so that young
1
Sarah Phillips, Young Learners: Resource Book for Teachers, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 3
2
Caroline T. Linse, Practical English Language Teaching: Young Learners, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006 p. 2
3
Phillips, loc.cit
4
Lynne Cameron, Teaching Language to Young learners, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. P.3
