Fun-Taste Tick English as a Way to Build Young Learners’ Confidence in English  

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Wahyuningsih, Titik

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 585-592.
Topik: Fun-Taste Tick English; Young Learners; Confidence
Fulltext: hal 585.pdf (15.04MB)

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Children are born smart; their brains are like sponges that absorb anything easily. Thus, Piaget said about children’s capacity as active learners and thinkers as they learn actively by interacting with their physical environment. However, according to Bruner, children can only learn effectively through scaffolding by adults. Vygotsky says further about adults’ help to children through his theory of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). In short, children, with the help of adults, can reach their maximum capacity of learning easily. This paper presents the success of English learning community services applied Fun-Taste Tick English as a method. It was done since Indonesian Curriculum of 2013 has removed English subject at elementary schools. This method pays attention at children’s need through their age characteristics. Thus, all activities done consider any aspect suggested by Piaget, Bruner, and Vygotsky to make children learn with maximum outcome. There are two groups of children: the first group consists of some orphan girls around 11-13 years old who are mostly have ever got English at school while the second group consists of some children from rural area aged 7 to 12 years old and most of them have not experienced English at school. The outcome shows a significant triumphant: the first group whose members were mostly introvert girls showed their interests in English and were confident to perform their ability in practicing English while the second group who showed their reluctance in English finally found it fun and even very curious to know English more.

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