Teaching English for Young Learners in Indonesia

English is an international language, it is very useful and important, with English we can communicate over the world. In Indonesia English is a foreign language, but it is very popular, it is taught in all levels educations stages. In many years, teaching foreign language to children was seen as something additional to the normal curriculum of the school system. Increasingly, educators have come to recognize the importance of starting foreign language learning at an early age.

Teaching English for young learners will very completely different with teaching English for adult. Young learners are unique. They are different with adult, they have very different needs, interest and abilities from adult and more enthusiastic than adult in language activity. In Indonesia, interest in teaching English to young learners has been steadily growing in recent years. Many parents believe that by studying English from early stage their children will get a better future. Because of that the Indonesia Ministry of Education has begun to respond by introducing English as a foreign language in elementary school, even in kindergarten. Unfortunately, in this year, English is not become one course which shuold be taught in elementary school anymore.Therefore, many parents dissappointed to the new curriculum. Most of them want their children can communicate in English and learn it at school. Even English is not become a subject at school anymore, parents still take the course for their children outside of school.

Thus, we can see that English is become a favorite subject in Indonesia. Not only the children, but adult also like to learn English because it was an international language.