Proceedings of the 4th Asian Education Symposium (AES 2019)

The Implementation of Phonic Method for Enhancing Very Young Learners’ Vocabulary

Authors
Getruida Nita Mozes, Nihta V. F. Liando
Corresponding Author
Nihta V. F. Liando
Available Online 15 May 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200513.007How to use a DOI?
Keywords
vocabulary, young learners, phonic method
Abstract

Teaching a foreign language especially vocabulary for very young learners are more challenging than teaching an adult. Interesting and fun activities are needed for very young learners to enhance their abilities to learn new foreign language vocabulary. If teachers do not use appropriate teaching methods to teach English vocabulary, the achievement of the learning process may not work well. One of the methods that can be used is the phonic method. This study intends to find out the effect of the phonics method to enhance very young learners’ English vocabulary. This is qualitative research. The population of this research is 15 children of one playgroup in Tahuna Sangihe Regency, who are 4 to 5 years old. This research data is learning activity at single-letter-sound. The research data are learning activity at single-letter-sound. In every activity, young learners are introduced three single-letter- phonics sound at the beginning of the words. There are two steps to do this activity; 1. To introduce a letter and its phonic sound. 2. New words gaining. As a result of this research young learners are easy to pronounce correctly and remember the letters and its sound, and the words. The result shows that the phonic method could enhance these young learners’ vocabulary.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th Asian Education Symposium (AES 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
15 May 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-966-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200513.007How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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