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1. CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNG LEARNERS To achieve a successful teaching of English to young learners, It is essential for teachers to understand the young learners' characteristics, instincts, and interests in their cognitive, linguistic, and emotional aspects, because this will play a crucial role in how the teacher builds a lesson, how he or she can make sure that the young learners are fully involved in the learning process, how he or she achieves the objectives of a lesson, and how they respond. In general characteristics, children of five are little children. Children of ten are relatively mature children with an adult child and a childish side. Most of young learners tend to play games and songs, learn best when they are enjoying themselves, and to imitate skillful older people as well as they are enthusiastic and positive learning in the company of other friends.

Dealing with young learners, teachers should create and vary their techniques to break the boredom. Spoken words are not enough for them, most young learners should include movement and involve the senses and They need to have plenty of objects and pictures to work with such as toys, puppets, pictures, maps, calendars, and other paraphernalia and saving them for use in each others classes. They are different with ten year- children who understand abstracts, symbols, rules and systems.

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2. THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH FOR YOUNG LEARNERS

Young learners tend to have short attention spans and a lot of physical energy. In addition, children are very much linked to their surroundings and are more interested in the physical and the tangible. As Scott and Ytreberg (1990, 2) describe, Their own understanding comes tbhrough hands and eyes and ears. Due to this, to teach English to young learners is how to capture their attention and keep them engaged in activities by modifying the activities with lots of brightly colored visuals, toys, puppets or objects to match the ones used in the story, or songs. Although it may take a lot of preparation time to make colorful pictures and puppets or to collect toys and objects, it is worth the effort if you can reuse them in future classes. Try to make the visuals on thick paper or laminate them whenever possible for future use. Sometimes donations for toys and objects can be from the people such as from parents or other teachers. It is a great way to build your resources is to create a Visuals and Realia Bank with other teachers at your school by collecting toys, puppets, pictures, maps, calendars, and other paraphernalia and saving them for use in each others classes. In addition, to work with this, Total Physical Response (TPR) is very helpful, where children listen to and follow through physical responses a series of instructions by the teacher, it is a very popular method among teachers of young learners. This popular method can be used as a technique with storytelling and with songs that teach language related to any kind of movement or physical action. Children have fun with movement, and the more fun for students, the better they will remember the language learned.