Name: Veninda Ayu Amalia

NIM: 2012021151

TEYL Quis 1
Please answer the following questions and provide your reason(s).

1. Why should an English teacher candidate study TEYL?

Answer: One way to introduce English as a foreign language or or second language to
children is by studying Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL). Study of TEYL
provides opportunities for pre-service teachers to gain the knowledge, creativity,
experience, behavior needed before becoming a true teacher. The creativity possessed
by pre-service teachers in TEYL training can have an academic and professional impact
on them as English teachers. Creating a fun and positive learning environment can
provide children with a solid foundation for success in more advanced courses later in
their academic career. Although it takes time for them to understand English, the basic
skills provided by the pre-service teacher prepare them to master a foreign language.
2. In order to teach Young Learner, what kinds of preparation should you have before you
enter the class?
Answer: Understand the needs of every children, decide what strategies and methods
should be appropriate, make lesson plan, prepare the media that is used, maintain
health, balance the mood, don't skip breakfast, and take opportunity to practice or
review.
3. Why opening and closing classes has an important role in learning activities especially
for children?
Answer: In the beginning of the class, opening, teacher should increase the motivation
from children in a way to make students feel comfortable, curiosity, enthusiastism, and
focus on learning. So, in this stage teacher have to prepare kind of strategies, methods,
and activities that are appropriate to the needs of all children in the class. Making fun
atmosphere in the classroom is the beginning of success in teaching. Make sure students
are mentally and physically ready for class. Finally, the students are not feeling bored
while in the classroom and attend the class with pleasure.
At the closing of the classroom, of course, the teacher will review the material
explained and then measure the student's ability that really understand for the material
that had been presented, so that the assignments or questions given can be answered by
students. Closing is important as well because teacher will tell the clue of what's next to
be learned with various way for making students can not wait for the next meeting.
4. Please explain 2 theories from some experts that can be used as the guideline to teach
English for young learners.
Answer: I think Vygotsky's theory can be used as a guideline for teaching young
learners. Because in Vygotsky's theory, he assumes that learning occurs when children
work or learn to handle tasks that have not been learned but the tasks are still within the
range of their abilities, or those tasks are in the zone of proximal development. Zone of
proximal development is the development of students' abilities slightly above the
abilities they already have. Then Vygotsky suggests cooperative learning, cooperative
learning occurs socially interactive, namely the interaction between students and
students and between students and teachers, in an effort to find concepts and problem
solving. During this interaction process, cognitive apprenticeship occurs, which is a
process in which a person who is learning step by step acquires expertise through his
interaction with an expert.
Then the theory according to Gardner which every human being has a different
intelligence in how to interact in their environment. When a teacher will develop a
lesson plan, of course he will try to understand the needs of students because students
have different intelligences, learning types, and interests. From this theory, the teacher
must see various variations in learning, where each individual has his own uniqueness.
And also this theory is very helpful for teachers in making lesson plans in each lesson.