TYPES AND PURPOSES OF ACTIVITIES IN TEYL CLASSES IN SATYA
WACANA CHILDREN CENTER
Meykke Alvia Yuntiawati
ABSTRACT
Children tend to play everytime and everywhere they get a chance to do it. They cannot help themselves to keep sitting and listening. Instead, they like moving around and playing. Therefore, the kindergarten teachers should be creative in providing activities. The fact that not many researchers provided the information about the kinds of activities and the need of each activity for Teaching English for Young Learners (TEYL) led the researcher to do this research and probe the information from it. This research attempted to describe the kinds of activities and their purposes in TEYL classes in Satya Wacana Children Center (SWCC), Salatiga, Central Java. The participants of the study were two groups of students of Bloomers and Blossoms classes in SWCC and two teachers. The data for this descriptive study were collected from ten classroom observations and ten semi-structured interviews with the teachers. The analysis of the data showed that there were nine activities including coloring pictures, singing and dancing, drilling the vocabulary, identifying pictures, performing role-play, watching movies, telling stories, making art and craft, and using movements with their own purposes for each activity.
Key words: teaching activities, teaching young learners, young learners, teaching
