Using Barbie Games to Teach Speaking for Young Learners

Abstract

The demand for the need to start learning English from an early age has made many experts try to find methods to improve English language method. As an early reference in learning to speak foreign language is the ability to speak the language as earlier as possible. Therefore, the teaching of speaking foreign languages to the early childhood must be considered.

The very complex characteristics of early childhood students are also a reference to how to make successes in teaching methods for the right students to achieve learning objectives. Early students are students who are in the play phase and still like to imitate. Therefore, the author offers Barbie Games as one of the methods of teaching English for young children. Barbie games are a mixture of role playing and contextual teaching, where students are directly involved in the pronunciation, repetition and vocabulary in the form of playing with Barbie as a medium.