Abstract
EFL young learners just made a little interaction with children poetry since the teachers seemed never use it as a learning material for them. The study intended to explore the instructional interactions occurred in the classroom by making use of children poetry as the learning material. It is an exploratory study which joined seven sixth graders from two elementary schools in Bandung of the age 11 to 12 years old as the research participants. The researcher used several techniques to obtain the data namely non-participant observations, video recording, document collection, and in-depth interviews. The data analysis was descriptive. Three way interactions were observed in the class, namely students-teacher interaction, student-student interaction, and student-text interaction. By playing appropriate teacher’s role, designing effective classroom activities, and selecting suitable children poetry, EFL young learners can be inspired and inspiring in the instructional interactions.
Highlights
The preliminary study conducted in some elementary schools in 2014 revealed that poetry seems seldom to be touched in EFL teaching teaching young learners
The purposes are just in line with the objectives of the study which generally attempts to explore the process of teaching English to EFL young learners through children poetry and to satisfy the curiosity regarding the instructional interactions occurred in the classroom
Tapi gak tau Bahasa Inggrisnya.”
Summary
The preliminary study conducted in some elementary schools in 2014 revealed that poetry seems seldom to be touched in EFL teaching teaching young learners. Having read the syllabus of English subject in elementary school, it did not include poetry as one of the learning materials. A phone interview with an English teacher of a state elementary school revealed that poetry was never given to the students. Her first reason was that she never thought to make use of poetry in her teaching. The second reason was that the elementary school syllabus offered a lot of activities but there was no sufficient time allocation.
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