Teaching and Learning English for Young Learners: Student-teachers’ View

There are many issues related to teaching and learning English for young learners. It is a widespread assumption that the earlier someone learns a foreign language, the better he or she will be. This research aims to find out the students’ perception toward issues in teaching and learning English for young learners. Semi-structured interview was used in this research to gain the data. The participants of this research were chosen purposively, they were 12 students of English Department who had taken EFYL course and have experience in teaching young learners. The result shows that the participants agreed that English is taught in the early age because young learners are easy to remember the vocabulary that will make them easy to master the language, Then, young learners are better at learning a new language because they have high self-confident rather than that of adults. Next, using interesting learning activities or fun learning would make easier for teachers to motivate young learners and they will get good results of mastering English language when they have a good interesting in English and supported by the environment around them. Furthermore, the teachers of young learners should have special training in order to manage the class and to provide interesting learning activities.