Effective Ways in Teaching English as Foreign Languageto Young Learners with Various Learning Styles

  • Fahriany Fahriany UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
  • Fahri Haswani Faculty of Language and Arts State University of Medan, Indonesia
Keywords: effective way, EFL, young learners

Abstract

In response to learning revolution, teaching is not only transferring knowledge to students but also it should be conducted by acommodating students’ learning styles.By viewing to these two factors, the teaching learning process will be more successful. This study presents the strategies to improve students’ speaking skill related to age and learning styles. The teaching strategies were developed by analysing the students’ needs, students’ wants, and students’ lack.

References

Allwright,D. (1990). Autonomy in Language Pedagogy in CRILE Working Paper 6. Centre for Research in Education: University of Lancaster.

Birdsong, D. (1992). Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition. Language 68, pp. 706-755

DeKeyser. (2000). The Robustness of Critical Period Effects in Second Language Acquisition. Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

Gardner, Howard (1993). Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice, Basic Books, Washington.

Littlejohn (1992). Why are English Language Teaching Materials the Way They are.Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyMay 1992Lancaster University

McKeachie (1999). McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for Collage and University Teachers.

Morrison (2010). Expanding The Mind’s Workspace: Training and Transfer Effects with a Complex Working Memory Span Task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Oyama, S. (1978). The Sensitive Period and Comprehension of Speech. Working Papers on Bilingualism, 16, 1-17.

Patkowski. (1980). The Sensitive Period for The Acquisition of Syntax in A Second Language, City University of NewYork.

Sharma. (2012).Measuring Teacher Efficacy to Implement Inclusive Practices, Faculty of Education, Monash University.
Published
2018-04-15
How to Cite
Fahriany, F., & Haswani, F. (2018). Effective Ways in Teaching English as Foreign Languageto Young Learners with Various Learning Styles. Indonesian EFL Journal: Journal of ELT, Linguistics, and Literature, 3(2), 55 - 63. Retrieved from https://ejournal.kopertais4.or.id/mataraman/index.php/efi/article/view/3352
Issue
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2017): December
Section
Articles

Copyright (c) 2017 Indonesian EFL Journal: Journal of ELT, Linguistics, and Literature

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

All rights reserved.

this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted

in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording.