CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Nowadays, English has become a very powerful language in the world. As an international language, most communities in the world use English. Different from other countries in South East Asia; such as Malaysia, Singapore or Philippines, where they put English as their second language, Indonesia puts English as its first foreign language. Anyone who wants to get respectable position in community and in a working place must master this language. As the most important foreign language, English has been taught at formal schools from the seventh grade of Junior High School (SMP) up to the twelfth grade of Senior High School (SMA) and some semesters in the university.
Even now, English can be taught at elementary schools as “a local content subject’. As stated in the local content of teaching guidelines (GBPP Mulok SD 1995:2), the objectives of teaching English
to elementary school students as a local content are “they are expected to have the skills of the language in simple English, with the emphasis to have speaking skill using selected topics related to their environmental needs such as tourism industry”. (Depdikbud, 1995: 2) Teaching English as a foreign language to children is not the same as teaching it to adults because they have different characteristics and different motivation. The way children learn a foreign language, and therefore the way to teach it, obviously depends on their developmental stage. It would not be reasonable to ask a child to do a task that demands a sophisticated control of spatial orientation (for example, tracing a route on a map) if he or she has not yet developed this skill. On the other hand, beginners of 8 or 10 years of age will not respond well to an activity that they perceive as childish, or well below their intellectual level even it is linguistically appropriate (for example, identifying an odd shape out of matching picture halves). This way, teacher has to be more aware and take into account in his or her teaching.
Teaching English to the fourth grader students of elementary schools means teaching the children at the age between 8 and 10 years old. According to Scott and Ytreberg (1990: 2-4) there are some general characteristics of children of that group such as they are competent users of mother tongue, they love to play and learn best when they enjoy themselves.Helaly also stated that children in that age are not self motivated and do not immediate need to learn English. Their word is their daily games and events of interest to them (1987: 49)
From the statements above, we know that in teaching English to children, a teacher plays a very important role, because he has the task to give the very basic introduction of the first foreign language. Here he must be able to draw student’s interest and motivation in learning English. Here are some points to bear??????????????
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