The Implementation of Phonic Method for Enhancing Very Young Learners’ Vocabulary
- 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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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Getruida Nita Mozes AU - Nihta V. F. Liando PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/15 TI - The Implementation of Phonic Method for Enhancing Very Young Learners’ Vocabulary BT - Proceedings of the 4th Asian Education Symposium (AES 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 28 EP - 32 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200513.007 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200513.007 ID - Mozes2020 ER -