characteristic of young learner

It is characteristics of young learners from psychology side:

·         They have short attention span. It means that teachers should vary their techniques to break the boredom. They should give varied activities as handwriting, songs, game, etc. it is so that they not boring and easy to accept the material.

·         They are very active. Teachers ask them to play games, role play dialogues and involve them in competitions. With this activity, teachers can know so far as they very active and interest the competitions.

·         They are less shy than older learners. So, ask them to repeat utterances, resort to mechanical drills.

·         They are imaginative. So teachers use pictures to teach new vocabulary related to concrete meanings. If the teacher use picture, they will be imaginative to meaning the picture because they full imagination and fantasy, and it is more than simply matter of enjoyment.