TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS AT SDIT AL-FURQAN PALANGKA RAYA

Magister of English Education, Universitas Palangka Raya

Abstract

The current study is aimed at describing teacher’s strategies in teaching English to young learners at SDIT Al-Furqan Palangka Raya. Statements of the problem covered  the teaching strategies applied, the kind of media used, and the types of assessment employed by the teacher to teach English to young learners at SDIT Al-Furqan Palangka Raya. The research design used was descriptive qualitative design, which consisted of data collection procedures of observation, interview, and documentation. To process the data, the writer used data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion and verification. The subject of this study was the teacher of English at SDIT Al-Furqan Palangka Raya. To Validate the data, the writer used credibility, transferability, dependability, confirmability. The research findings revealed that teaching techniques applied at SD IT Al-Furqan Palangka Raya consisted of games, demonstration, look and say, questioning, read and say, verbal illustration. In the teaching learning strategy the teacher conveyed the material by brain storming, memorizing the words, guessing the picture, coming forward to do the conversation, demonstrating something, reading aloud, writing the words, sticking the picture and doing role play. Second, to support the strategy the teacher used media and evaluation. Some media that the teacher used were pictures, gesture (body language), picture cards, glue, scissors, papers to do roulette game, and last the types of evaluation pre instructional activity, during the instructional activity, and post instructional activity. Evaluation was used by the teacher to know the students progress comprehension.