EFL Primary Teachers’ Perceptions On Teaching English To Young Learners In Yogyakarta

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to describe teachers’ perceptions on teaching English to young learners in primary education level. This research was phenomenology research which was conducted both in international and regular primary schools in Yogyakarta. Furthermore, there were three participants of this research, two English teachers who teach English in an international primary school, and one English teacher who teaches English in three regular primary schools. In addition, the data were collected from the interview transcript as the main source for this research. Moreover, thematic analysis was used by the researcher to analyze the data findings. This research revealed that the teachers had positive perceptions related to the benefit of teaching English to young learners. With regard to the process of teaching English to young learners, it was found that different teaching methods and techniques became the one of many difficult challenges faced by the teachers. Then, in terms of the use of learning media, the findings showed that the teachers mostly used and integrated traditional media in the process of teaching English to young learners.