Conceptual Framework LITERATURE REVIEW
children is a process that requires good materials, which have to be suitable to the learners’ need. It is because children as young learners have the different
characteristics in learning language, which needs different treatment and more interesting activities in teaching process.
They will learn English happily and easily when they fell comfort and enjoy the situation. They need special methods and interesting materials, through games,
songs, story, and actions which will attract them to learn English. The teaching and learning process itself needs some principles that refer to the curriculum, so
that a success of teaching and learning can be achieved. A curriculum, as one element in the teaching and learning, consists of goals
to be achieved, material needs, evaluation procedure, and other important elements to be implemented in the teaching and learning process. Thus, the
curriculum has function as a key guideline in planning and organizing a language teaching and learning program.
A material brings the important role since the material has been designed based on the learners’ needs. In implementing the materials, the researcher should
include the tasks that to be given to the children as the realization of the materials. Tasks are defined as activities that involve children in using the target language
actively, for instance by manipulating, producing, or interacting in order to achieve not only the language-related goals but also the communication purposes.
Related to the curriculum, tasks should fulfill the demand of the curriculum. Based on the questionnaires, interviews and observation in TKIT Salsabila 2
Banguntapan Bantul, the researcher found some insight about the condition of
materials and the children of class B. the children of class B were very active. They need a new and fresh method to learn English. The English teaching
learning process at TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan Bantul which is guided by two teachers with about twenty children and meets once in a week for thirty minutes is
assumed to have its own complexity. The researcher considers that English Day program in this kindergarten can help the teachers and also the children to find an
effective way to learn English. This program contains many interested activities which can attract the children’s interest to involve more actively in the teaching-
learning process. That is why this research is concerned with developing English teaching
materials for English Day program for teaching English to children in TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan Bantul. The actual data about the implementation of
English teaching material in TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan Bantul will be collected then it will be processed and developed in order to construct good
English teaching materials for English Day program. The research aims to get some insight of the characteristics of effective
learning materials, which are suitable with the children of class B in TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan Bantul. It is expected the result of this study will give
some additional knowledge about teaching materials for English Day program at kindergarten level to all English teachers not only in kindergarten levels but also
in higher levels. It will also be useful for kindergarten practitioner and these who concerns with the developing of English teaching-learning process in kindergarten
level.