PEMBUATAN MEDIA PENGAJARAN UNTUK ‘ENGLISH FOR YOUNG LEARNERS’ YAYASAN AL-KAHFI CABANG PALEMBANG

Abstract

This community service activity was held to assist a private institution, Yayasan Al-Kahfi, which provides teaching assistance to the orphan and disadvantage children. One of the subjects taught was English. Based on the observation, there were some obstacles faced. The educational background of the instructors which does not relevant, the lack knowledge of English subject, how to teach the English for young learners, the lack of teaching media, the limited time of teaching that was only about 50 minutes, and the range of age in the same group that varied from kindergarden and between first until third elementary class or young learners were some of the obstacles found. Therefore, an  effective and efficient teaching was extremely important to be considered. Teaching media is one of the strategy that can be used for this issue. The teaching media were made to ease the instructor in teaching without spending their time to write on the whiteboard since the teaching media made, modified and use Velcro tape at the back side so they can stick on a soft board covered with velvet. The teaching media proved that the teaching and learning activities can be done extremely effective and efficient.