Teaching English to Young Learners: Students’ Interference on Pre-Reading Skill in Preparing School Readiness
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200808.044How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- English to young learners, pre-reading, school readiness
- Abstract
Industrial revolution 4.0 encourages people to develop their skills, for instance literacy skills. English literacy is needed since people should be able to participate globally which might be commenced in Early Childhood Education (ECE). The English instruction for non-native young learners needs numerous methods to deliver the materials in a proper way, purposely the pre-reading instruction for young learners in preparing for school readiness. Pre-reading skill would be emphasized on introduction of English letters sounds as a foundation in developing reading skill in the future. This article unpacks teaching practices in English pre-reading skill to young learners which involve children as role model for their peers. It uses qualitative descriptive study which involves two teachers and children aged four and five years old. It reveals that students’ interference in an English instruction of pre-reading skill is able to assist them to comprehend the concept of English letter sounds, to increase the student’s confidence in learning English, to improve their fluency in English, and to create contextual environment of learning.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Sharina Munggaraning Westhisi PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/10 TI - Teaching English to Young Learners: Students’ Interference on Pre-Reading Skill in Preparing School Readiness BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Early Childhood Education and Parenting 2019 (ECEP 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 224 EP - 227 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200808.044 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200808.044 ID - Westhisi2020 ER -