3.2 Games and videos for young learners
Young Learners who are students in early age around six to twelve, Alkhamali stated that, Young Learners is a term used to describe children of pre-primary and primary school age. Young Learners are often more enthusiastic and lively learners, Cameron notes that, Young Learners are like to please their teachers rather than their friends, they will do any activities even when they do not understand the reason therefore they also interest more quickly and are less able to keep themselves motivated on tasks they find are difficult. That are make Young children is very unique and attractive than adults. Phillips said that, how Young Learners, learn a new language, and even the technique to teach obviously depends on their developmental stage, Young Learners have their own responds to learn a new language, they react to foreign language according to what they can do with it, rather than treating it as an intellectual game or abstract system.
Based on the data gotten, since the nature of the children like to play and have fun, it is possible for the teachers to teach the students through the fun activity. One form of fun activities that the students know and familiar is video, and the simple form of video is movie. Through movie video and the fun activity make the students learn the language unconsciously, and in a fun way. Through video, the students can enhance their language skills such as listening, speaking and writing. These three skills are put in order, since the first skills that the students learn is listening to the voice on video , and after that the students learn to speak or pronounce the word on video, the last thing, the students learn to write the simple story from video. The activity is not only lead to the fun activity of the students but also the skills’ development of the students. So, it can be concluded that teaching listening using video is considered as an alternative media used to improve the students’ listening comprehension.
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