Kids have special ways in order to learn English. Their characteristics are didifferent from adults. One of them is their understanding comes through hands, eyes and ears. In my former note I suggested to use multi-sence method.
Here is an example; Our objective is to identfy the colors red, yellow and blue. Many teachers teach this objective by translating them into Indonesian or they may write the translation on a white board and ask to copy. It seems simple and they may thing three colors is not enough so that they teach more colors in a period or a meeting. To know how the kids master the objective, the teachers often ask in Bahasa Indonesia "Bahasa Inggrisnya merah apa anak-anak?" Finally, they judge that the students' competence is achieved if the students can answer the questions.
As matter of fact the illustration above is misunderstood. The kids may have many vocabularies of colors, but lack of using them. It means they know much about English because they can translate, but they do not know how to do. The question is how we should do. The following will explain the steps we teach the objectives;
1. Say the three colors by showing the things that have the colors. When we say red color, we show red color, we say blue color we show blue color, ect. Say, "It's yellow," or just "Yellow"
2. Have them repeat after us enough times so that they are familiar.
3. After that, we can vary by introducing the question, "What color?" to give the context. Here we do not need to translate the question because the context is clear enough. The kids will understand automatically.
4. Prepare some pictures and distribute one picture for one student. Have them colored. While they are busy doing their project, we can go around and ask everyone about what color the pictures are. By doing this we will see which students marked mastery, in progress or not mastery.
5. To those who have mastery or in progress may be invited to share with the class just by saying the colors of their pictures. Or, they can put their pictures on a display board and ask the other students to see, and if possible have them ask their friends' pictures by using the question what color?
6. End the activity by singing a song or a game about the colors. We can create our own song or game to make the learning activity more meaningful.
Here is an example; Our objective is to identfy the colors red, yellow and blue. Many teachers teach this objective by translating them into Indonesian or they may write the translation on a white board and ask to copy. It seems simple and they may thing three colors is not enough so that they teach more colors in a period or a meeting. To know how the kids master the objective, the teachers often ask in Bahasa Indonesia "Bahasa Inggrisnya merah apa anak-anak?" Finally, they judge that the students' competence is achieved if the students can answer the questions.
As matter of fact the illustration above is misunderstood. The kids may have many vocabularies of colors, but lack of using them. It means they know much about English because they can translate, but they do not know how to do. The question is how we should do. The following will explain the steps we teach the objectives;
1. Say the three colors by showing the things that have the colors. When we say red color, we show red color, we say blue color we show blue color, ect. Say, "It's yellow," or just "Yellow"
2. Have them repeat after us enough times so that they are familiar.
3. After that, we can vary by introducing the question, "What color?" to give the context. Here we do not need to translate the question because the context is clear enough. The kids will understand automatically.
4. Prepare some pictures and distribute one picture for one student. Have them colored. While they are busy doing their project, we can go around and ask everyone about what color the pictures are. By doing this we will see which students marked mastery, in progress or not mastery.
5. To those who have mastery or in progress may be invited to share with the class just by saying the colors of their pictures. Or, they can put their pictures on a display board and ask the other students to see, and if possible have them ask their friends' pictures by using the question what color?
6. End the activity by singing a song or a game about the colors. We can create our own song or game to make the learning activity more meaningful.
As you see from the first to the last activity that the learning involves almost all the students' senses. Despite the objective is simple, the activity is meaningful. It means we stress more on how to teach than the material itself.
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