Abstract
This study examined how the teachers in preschool implement the principles of classroom management when teaching English for young learners in preschool. This study aimed to find the answer about how the teachers implement the principles of classroom management to teach young learners in preschool. The participants of the study were two teachers who are teaching in one of the bilingual preschools in Salatiga. Those teachers were teaching a class for 4-5 years old young learners and 5-6 years old young learners. To record the data, the writer used video recordings and observational notes. The result showed that the implementation of six principles of classroom management helped teachers to create good atmosphere during teaching learning process and encouraged the students to follow teaching-learning process till the end of the class. However, once the teachers did not apply one of the principles, the classes were difficult to be controlled. The example can be seen when the students made noise because teacher did not provide various activities and more materials. The result is supported by a previous study which was conducted by Vale and Feunteun (1995). Vale and Feunteu (1995) stated that once teachers did not apply the principle of classroom management, it would be difficult for them to control the class. This study can be very useful for English language teacher’s students who are willing to be teachers for very young learners since the result give suggestions about how to implement the classroom management principles when teaching English for young learners. It is suggested that further research should be more focus on classroom management strategies for young learners with special needs because there must be a special implementation of classroom management for students with special needs.
