Young Learners Seven to Twelve Years old

Considering that children have short attention term, it is quite useful to make lessons become interesting, lively, and fun. Therefore, activities should be designed to capture children’s immediate interest, a lesson needs a variety of activities, a teacher needs a sense of humor, and it is badly needed to consider that children have a lot of natural curiosity. Accordingly, the English teachers to young learners should make sure that they interest into that curiosity whenever possible, and teacher will there by help to maintain attention and focus children. c. Sensory Input In consideration of sensory input, activities should fight to get beyond the visual and auditory modes that learners feel are usually senough for a classroom. It means that the lessons contain physical activities, projects and hands-on activities, sensory aids here and there, and non-verbal languages. d. Affective Factors Children are extremely sensitive. Therefore, the English teachers should help their students to laugh with each other at various mistakes that they all make, be patient and supportive to build self-confidence, and get as much oral participation as possible from students. e. Authentic, Meaningful Language Children are good at sensing language that is not authentic; therefore, ―canned‖ or stilted language will likely be rejected. The language needs to be firmly context-embedded and not context-reduced. A whole language approach is essential. It means that if language is broken into too many bits and pieces, students won’t see the relationship to the whole. 1 Teaching English through English Unfortunately, not all teachers connected their lesson in the target language. Therefore, using English in English classroom might not seem as something natural and real. Impression that learners get from foreign language is only just a complement in learning they do not see it as a tool of communication . Young learners are able to produce English more than they understand. There are quite a lot of ways to put message across. Teacher’s expression and intonation