COURSE OUTLINE

Teaching English to Young learners

A. COURSE IDENTITY
Course Title : Teaching English to Young Learners
Code : TBI 742
Semester : VI
Dept : Tarbiyah/TBI
Offering : A/B
Status : Compulsory Course
Credit/Hours : 2/2
Prerequisite :-

Instructor : Dr. Ary Setya Budhi Ningrum, M.Pd

Address : Jl. P. Sudirman VI/136A Tulungagung
Hp : 0895396656959
Email : ary_oyesip@yahoo.com

B. COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is a compulsory course that must be taken by the students of
English Department after they passed Teaching English as a Foreign Language
(TEFL).
Teaching English for young learners has much difference to teaching English
for adult learners. Therefore, this course provides topics on basic principles of
teaching English to Young Learners, instructional material, media, teaching language
skills and components, and teaching preparation for peer/micro teaching.
This course is indispensable for the students who want to be an English
teacher at elementary schools or playgrounds. This course is designed to equip them
to be a professional English teacher for young learners.

C. COURSE OBJECTIVES
After completing the course, the students are expected to have practical
knowledge and skills of teaching English to young learners and enable them to adapt
and develop materials, media, and teaching techniques appropriate to young learners’
need. Here are some indicators of learning outcomes to be achieved in this course.
1. Students can summarize or overview of young learner development in
term of their cognitive, social/emotional, and physical development
2. Students can evaluate a good and a bad English teacher for young
learners
3. Students can demonstrate a good classroom management
4. Students are capable in delivering strategies and techniques used to
teach English skill for young learners (speaking, listening, writing,
reading)
 5. Students can select, adapt, and develop the materials properly
6. Students can make the media used to teaching by their own
7. Students are capable in adapting their styles of teaching to
accommodate the needs and motivations of young learners

D. COURSE ACTIVITIES
Lecturing, conducting class/group discussion, demonstration, collaborative
presentation, project-based assignment, and peer/micro teaching.

E. TIME LINE
Meetings Topics
1 Introduction to the
course
2 Teaching EYL, Teachers
of EYL, Young Learners’
Characteristics,
Classroom Management
3 Instructional Materials
(Decided Final Project)
4 Instructional Media
(Make it one)
Readings
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Linse (2006), ch. 1, pp. 1-20
Scott and Ytreberg (1990), ch. 1 & 2
Haliwel (1992), pp. 1-38
Moon (2008), pp. 90-98, “How to select activities
for language learning”
Scott and Ytreberg (1990), ch. 9
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5 Teaching Listening Linse (2006), ch. 2, pp. 21-44

6 Teaching Speaking
7 Teaching Reading
8 Teaching Writing
9 Teaching Vocabulary
10 Lesson Plans
11-15 Peer Teaching
Scott and Ytreberg (1990), ch. 3, pp. 21-32
Read (2007), Hadfield (1984), Greenwood (1997),
Wright (1995)
Linse (2006), ch. 3, pp. 45-67
Scott and Ytreberg (1990), ch. 4, pp. 33-48
Read (2007), Hadfield (1984), Greenwood (1997),
Wright (1995)
Linse (2006), ch. 4, pp. 69-96
Scott and Ytreberg (1990), ch. 5, pp. 49-67
Read (2007), Hadfield (1984), Greenwood (1997),
Wright (1995)
Linse (2006), ch. 5, pp. 97-119
Scott and Ytreberg (1990), ch. 6, pp. 68-83
Read (2007), Hadfield (1984), Greenwood (1997),
Wright (1995)
Linse (2006), ch. 6, pp. 121-136
Read (2007), Hadfield (1984), Greenwood (1997),
Wright (1995)
Moon (2008), ch. 8, pp. 99117
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 16 Final Test /Final Project -

F. EVALUATION
• Attendances : 25%
• Instructional media : 25%
• Peer/micro teaching : 25%
• Final Project : 25%
Any students who skip classes 3 times or more with no excuse gets one grade
lower than s/he deserves.

G. REFERENCES
Greenwood, Jean. 1997. Activity Box: A resource book for teachers of young
students. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hadfield, Jill. 1984. Elementary Communication Games: A collection of games and
activities for elementary students of English. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and
Sons Ltd.
Haliwel, Susan. 1992. Teaching English in the Primary Classroom. London: Longman
Group.
Linse, C. T. 2006. Practical English Language Teaching: Young Learners. New York:
McGraw-Hill.
Moon, Jayne. 2008. Children Learning English. Thailand: Macmillan Publisher.
Read, Carol. 2007. 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom. Macmillan: Macmillan
Books for Teachers.
Scott, Wendy A, and Lisbeth H. Ytreberg. 1990. Teaching English to Children.
London: Longman group.
Wright, Andrew. 1995.Story Telling with Children. London: Oxford University Press.
ASSESSMENT OF TEYL

No. Teaching skill

1. sets up and manages a
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communicative activity
2. give a simple and clear
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instruction
3. maintains learners’ interest
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and involvement
4. Using media in teaching
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activities appropriately
5. achieves learning objectives in
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time given
Total
Score (total x 5)
Comments on peer teaching
performance (strengths and area
of improvement)

1=Still developing this skill 2=Shows adequate competence with this skill 3=Shows clear competence in this
skill 4=Carries out this skill with ease, competence & confidence.
ASSESSMENT OF FINAL PROJECT

No. INDICATORS SCORE

1. clearly organized and graded materials 1 2 3 4 5

(sequenced by difficulty)

2. The availability of various tasks 1 2 3 4 5

3. simple and clear instructions 1 2 3 4 5

4. The appropriate and interesting 1 2 3 4 5

displayed visual materials

Total

Score (total x 5)