This document contains responses to questions about studying Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL). It discusses how TEYL provides knowledge and experience needed to become an effective English teacher for children. Preparing appropriate lessons, materials, and a fun learning environment helps children build a strong foundation. Opening and closing classes is important to motivate children and review lessons. The theories of Vygotsky and Gardner are cited as guidelines, with Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and cooperative learning approaches, and Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
This document contains responses to questions about studying Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL). It discusses how TEYL provides knowledge and experience needed to become an effective English teacher for children. Preparing appropriate lessons, materials, and a fun learning environment helps children build a strong foundation. Opening and closing classes is important to motivate children and review lessons. The theories of Vygotsky and Gardner are cited as guidelines, with Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and cooperative learning approaches, and Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
This document contains responses to questions about studying Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL). It discusses how TEYL provides knowledge and experience needed to become an effective English teacher for children. Preparing appropriate lessons, materials, and a fun learning environment helps children build a strong foundation. Opening and closing classes is important to motivate children and review lessons. The theories of Vygotsky and Gardner are cited as guidelines, with Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and cooperative learning approaches, and Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
This document contains responses to questions about studying Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL). It discusses how TEYL provides knowledge and experience needed to become an effective English teacher for children. Preparing appropriate lessons, materials, and a fun learning environment helps children build a strong foundation. Opening and closing classes is important to motivate children and review lessons. The theories of Vygotsky and Gardner are cited as guidelines, with Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and cooperative learning approaches, and Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
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Name: Veninda Ayu Amalia
NIM: 2012021151
TEYL Quis 1 Please answer the following questions and provide your reason(s).
1. Why should an English teacher candidate study TEYL?
Answer: One way to introduce English as a foreign language or or second language to children is by studying Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL). Study of TEYL provides opportunities for pre-service teachers to gain the knowledge, creativity, experience, behavior needed before becoming a true teacher. The creativity possessed by pre-service teachers in TEYL training can have an academic and professional impact on them as English teachers. Creating a fun and positive learning environment can provide children with a solid foundation for success in more advanced courses later in their academic career. Although it takes time for them to understand English, the basic skills provided by the pre-service teacher prepare them to master a foreign language. 2. In order to teach Young Learner, what kinds of preparation should you have before you enter the class? Answer: Understand the needs of every children, decide what strategies and methods should be appropriate, make lesson plan, prepare the media that is used, maintain health, balance the mood, don't skip breakfast, and take opportunity to practice or review. 3. Why opening and closing classes has an important role in learning activities especially for children? Answer: In the beginning of the class, opening, teacher should increase the motivation from children in a way to make students feel comfortable, curiosity, enthusiastism, and focus on learning. So, in this stage teacher have to prepare kind of strategies, methods, and activities that are appropriate to the needs of all children in the class. Making fun atmosphere in the classroom is the beginning of success in teaching. Make sure students are mentally and physically ready for class. Finally, the students are not feeling bored while in the classroom and attend the class with pleasure. At the closing of the classroom, of course, the teacher will review the material explained and then measure the student's ability that really understand for the material that had been presented, so that the assignments or questions given can be answered by students. Closing is important as well because teacher will tell the clue of what's next to be learned with various way for making students can not wait for the next meeting. 4. Please explain 2 theories from some experts that can be used as the guideline to teach English for young learners. Answer: I think Vygotsky's theory can be used as a guideline for teaching young learners. Because in Vygotsky's theory, he assumes that learning occurs when children work or learn to handle tasks that have not been learned but the tasks are still within the range of their abilities, or those tasks are in the zone of proximal development. Zone of proximal development is the development of students' abilities slightly above the abilities they already have. Then Vygotsky suggests cooperative learning, cooperative learning occurs socially interactive, namely the interaction between students and students and between students and teachers, in an effort to find concepts and problem solving. During this interaction process, cognitive apprenticeship occurs, which is a process in which a person who is learning step by step acquires expertise through his interaction with an expert. Then the theory according to Gardner which every human being has a different intelligence in how to interact in their environment. When a teacher will develop a lesson plan, of course he will try to understand the needs of students because students have different intelligences, learning types, and interests. From this theory, the teacher must see various variations in learning, where each individual has his own uniqueness. And also this theory is very helpful for teachers in making lesson plans in each lesson.