Children themselves Teaching English to Children

senior high school students it is very important to learn English since it determines whether they can pass to the next level of education or not. English has a role as a foreign language in Indonesia. Mastering this language is a must since it is a global language and the government is keen on encouraging the citizens to master it well. Brewster et al.2002:3 point out some reasons for starting to learn a foreign language several years earlier at age six or nine instead of eleven or twelve. The first reason is that to increase the total number of years spent learning the language. Next, teachers should take account of the methods and the pace of primary school teaching. Another reason is young children seem to have a greater facility for understanding and imitating. For those reasons, it is important to learn English since early age. English at elementary school had been introduced since 1994. At that time, the provision for that subject was as a local content subject. Some schools decided that English was a local content subject that had to be taught; therefore they hired English teachers to teach their students. Some schools who can support the learning of English can conduct the teaching and learning process well. On the other hand, Nury 2012:161 mentions the case is quite different for the children of the less privileged areas where access to qualified teachers, appropriate materials and fun learning is almost impossible. These children have to be content with teachers with no English or child teaching background who are hired because only them who are available. These will endanger the future of the child to the attitude in learning English. In the end of the year 2006, English was still a local content subject in the curriculum of 2004. Based on The Ministry of Education 2008, the government strengthened the provision of teaching English based on a Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 19 Tahun 2005 tentang Standar Nasional Pendidikan, b Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 22 Tahun 2006 tentang Standar Isi, and c Peraturan Menteri Nomor 23 Tahun 2006 tentang Standar Kompetensi Lulusan. Teaching English at elementary school has two objectives. The National Ministry of Education lists those objectives as follow: a Mengembangkan kompetensi berkomunikasi dalam bentuk lisan secara terbatas untuk mengiringi tindakan language accompanying action dalam konteks sekolah b Memiliki kesadaran tentang hakikat dan pentingnya bahasa Inggris untuk meningkatkan daya saing bangsa dalam masyarakat global. There are four skills of literacy ability that have to be mastered by the pupils. Departemen Pendidikan Nasional state that those abilities are performative, functional, informational, and epistemic. In performative stage, pupils should be able to read, write, and speak using the symbols and communicate in a certain context. in functional stage, pupils should be able to use the language for survival such as to read a newspaper, manual, and etc. In informational stage, pupils should be able to access their knowledge with their