Characteristics of a Young Learner

A learner is a person who acquires new knowledge, behavior, skills, values, or understanding from individuals and circumstances. The learner gains new insight about that subject and will be in a more open position after that. Most people attend school to learn different characteristics and skills. Learning can be done by young people and adults, each with its own characteristics. Features of young learners Young learners have limited attention. That is because they are usually very curious and easily disturbed by surrounding events.

However, young learners have different characteristics from adult learners. One of them is that children are still developing cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical aspects (teach young students of knowledge testing: teacher's guide, 2010). In other words, when teaching with them, the teacher must first consider the development of mother tongue skills. Young learners like rhythmic and repetitive languages ​​than adults. They tend to use words more than adults and can participate more effectively through stories and games (Peck, 2009).

The paper evaluated the verbal abilities of young students in the fifth grade of Padang's three primary schools.

Research review Throughout the semester, I worked with a young girl with English learner (ELL). An English learner is a person who is not yet fully qualified in English and whose native language is not English (Lerner and Johns, 2012). Decreasing the skill level of English may make it difficult for individuals to understand and use English (Learner and Johns, 2012). - English as the official language of the United States will benefit the US government and the whole United States. The United States has long been a multicultural country, speaking English since its establishment. Constitution and federal documents are written in English. This further promotes the American people and believes that English should be our official language.