Teaching Young learners has been happening in Indonesia for many years.

The concept of young learners

has been changed from the age, the coursebook that has written. In the past Young learners refer to
students between five and twelve years of age. Today, the young learners started from the pre-school
(three years) to Elementary school (12 years). Different age is crucial thing to determine the teaching
method, emphasize the language competence and address the cognitive skills.

Young learners are highly dependent on the teacher; therefore teacher education is of paramount
importance. Children do not yet have many general learning strategies, and need to learn strategies
while they are learning language. Thus innate abilities are particularly important for this age group: their
pleasure in rhythm, their curiosity and interest in technology, as novice readers their excitement over
picturebooks, their interest in others and intercultural mediation, children’s interest in collecting and
portfolios, the connection of drama to play and also task-based learning, Content and Language
Integrated Learning and immersion approaches that meet children’s need to learn implicitly. All this is
highly challenging for teachers, who must often extend their craft repertoire and their language
competence, and even additionally develop or search for suitable materials.

Children have different ways of learning which the education experts have roughly grouped these
into three basic styles – auditory, visual and kinaesthetic.When parents know their child‘s best way to
learn, they can help their child learn more effectively. And part of this process is for parents to
understand their own learning style, because we tend to teach in that style.

To find out what type of learner both you and your child are, read on. But before you pigeonhole
yourself or your child, it‘s worth remembering that while you may have a dominant style of learning,
everyone borrows a little bit from all the styles to learn about the world around them.

a. Auditory of Language Learner

These types learn through listening to what others have to say and talking about what they‘re learning.
They‘re also more likely to:

1) remember information by talking aloud

2) need to have things explained orally

3) may have trouble with written instructions

4) talk to themselves while learning something new

5) enjoy discussion groups over working alone.

Worth noting: auditory learners might look like they‘re not paying attention when you talk to them, but
their listening skills are more developed than their visual skills.

b. Visual of Language Learners

As their name suggests, these people learn through watching. It‘s believed to be the most dominant
learning style and many traditional classrooms are geared towards the visual learner. For their learning
to make sense they need to be able to see, visualise and illustrate their knowledge skills and concepts.
Visual learning characteristics include:

1) remembering visual details

2) preferring to see what they are learning

3) needing to have paper and pens handy

4) doodling while listening

5) liking to write down instructions or see them demonstrated.

Worth noting: Telling these learners how to do something may not make sense to them at all – they need
to see it.

c. Kinaesthetic/tactile learners

These learners like to be actively involved in the learning process, and learn best through hands-on
activities and movement. Other kinaesthetic characteristics are they:

1) want to actually do whatever is being talked about or learned

2) like to move around while listening or talking

3) often ―talk‖ with their hands

4) like to touch things in order to learn about them

5) remember events by recalling who did what rather than who

REFERENCES
Imaniah, ikhfi. 2017. Teaching English for Young Learners. Tanggerang: FKIP UMT Press.

Bland, Janice. 2015. Introduction to Teaching English to Young Learners (Critical Issues in

Language Teaching with 3-12 Years Old). London: Bloomsbury Academic