TEACHING ENGLISH TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGH PLAYING MODEL

Abstract

Teaching English to elementary school students is viewed as hard task and sometimes boring. This is caused by the fact that many teachers can not create teaching and learning process appropriately to satisfy and interest their students. That is why, a teacher should be able to seek an appropriate technique which is  in accordance with the students’ interest and development. This paper is aimed at explaining and discussing the technique for teaching English at elementary school through playing activities. This kind of technique is assumed to be suitable with the development of students in that school. The playing model should be designed as well as possible so that they can help the teacher and the students to achieve instructional objectives easily, quickly and effectively. These activities are arranged to fulfill the teaching goal by following the common steps of teaching, that is, pre-teaching, whilst teaching and post-teaching. In this teaching model the teaching is done by the following sequence; selection, orientation association, confirmation and communication. By this way, it is expected that the students will learn better and can communicate in English sooner.