Introduction
Harmer stated, “… one of the most common beliefs about age and language learning is that young children learn faster and more effectively than any other group. … Their understanding comes not just from explanation, but also from what they see. (Harmer: 2007, pp. 81-82). Fun with young learners.blogspot.com said that young learners are learners in elementary school aging 9-10 years old who are learning as foreign language (funwithyounglearners.blogspot.com ). Here, we can see that the gold period to learn any language, for example English is on this ages because they learn faster on this period by see the new words in pictures. Increasing their ability in learning English can be done by teaching them vocabulary with full colors Pictionary. From experts opinion, we can say that full color picture dictionary is a dictionary that contains alphabetical words with their meanings and shows pictures with full of colors that can make it more interesting and, understandable. This Pictionary is full of colors so that young children can understand and after that remember some words in easy way by looking its picture. There are some examples of full colors picture dictionary, one of it, for instance here is Cambridge picture dictionary. We are who study in English education can use full color Pictionary to teach vocabulary for young children. There are five ways to teach vocabulary to young children by using full colors Pictionary.
Nowadays, there are so many techniques to attract young children to learn foreign language. Learning foreign language can be started by knowing simple vocabularies. The techniques are used before are bored for them. They like to see picture, this in the main point to teach them vocabulary. The vocabularies that are made into one dictionary which is supported with full colors pictures can be the most interesting technique to teach young children. There are five ways to teach vocabulary to young children by using full colors Pictionary. First way is finding new words or difficult words in reading, writing, speaking and listening task. After finding the new or difficult word, they are asked to write those words in white board or their notebooks. In teaching vocabulary week online stated, “Vocabulary notebooks help the EFL and ESL instruction as a tool (teaching vocabulary week IV.html page 2). Then they have to guess the meaning of those words first. After that, teacher gives clues to the students to help them guess the meaning.
The next way is the teacher asks the students to open their full colors picture dictionaries. In ELTchat.htm said that visual representation of vocabulary is helpful, especially with low-level learners. Teachers can use picture vocabulary … (How to activate vocabulary – ELTchat Summary 16_02_2010 _ ELTchat.htm). The teacher asks the students to open their full colors Pictionary. Paul Nation in his journal of teaching vocabulary said that ways of quickly giving attention and meaning to words by showing a picture of that words (Nation, page 1). The students have to find their difficult or new words in those dictionaries. They will be interested by the picture of some words that they do not understand. If they are interested, they will remember it in a long time. Based on how to teach vocabulary, the picture of words as a visual mnemonics can be placed in order to elicit words from long-term memory into working memory (how to teach vocabulary.html page 8).
The third way is making some example of sentences based on those words which are looked up into full color Pictionary that is done by the teacher. After that students are asked to make their own sentences based on their difficult words which are look up into their dictionaries. Making sentences based on some difficult words make the student more understand about those words.
Do not miss it. When the teacher teaches vocabulary, that vocabulary should be pronounced well. Here, the last way is teacher has to teach to pronounce the vocabulary in the right way.
To sum up, there are four ways to teach vocabulary to young children by using full colors Pictionary. First way is trying to find the difficult or new words in reading, writing, listening, and speaking task. After that students can their full colors Pictionary to look up the words that they do not understand. The next way is making some sentences based on the words that students do not understand. The last way is teacher helps the students to pronounce the words well. Full color Pictionary as a something that teacher can use to teach vocabulary in easy and interesting way, so that the student can remember it in a long time.
References
Harmer, Jeremy. 2007. The Practice of English Language Teaching Fourth Edition. New York: Pearson Longman.
Nation, Paul: Teaching Vocabulary page 8.Accessed on Tuesday, November 15th 2011.
http:///www.HowtoactivatevocabularyELTchatSummary16_02_2010ELTchat.htm accessed on Tuesday, November 15th, 2011.
http://funwithyounglearners.blogspot.com/2011/04/young-learners-definition.html accessed on Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
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