TEACHING ENGLISH SONG TO YOUNG LEARNERS
Abstract
This research tries to investigate the influence of songs to increase young learners" vocabularies. The songs used are simple and easy to listen by early childhood. In addition, the songs contain alphabets and basic words that familiar with the children, so that the children can understand and remember the words easily. Besides, the researcher used English song video in order to make the young learners easy to memorize and match between the picture and the words said. The sample of this study was 25 young learners of pre-school in Aceh Besar. The method used is descriptive method in form of Classroom Action Research (CAR). Moreover, this research was conducted in two cycles, in which each cycle incudes planning, action, observing, and reflecting. Techniques used in collecting the data were observation and oral questions. Result of this research shows that 85% young learners could mention English alphabet correctly in the first cycle. Furthermore, in the second cycle, 90% children could say simple sentences and mention English nouns. Therefore, it is important to pre-schools" teachers to create interesting learning situation such as using video song in teaching foreign language to young learners instead of using oral song sung by the teachers themselves, so that the children be more interested and focus in learning.
Keywords
Young Learners, Video English Song