The Inclusion of Humanity Awareness Issues in TEYL
Classroom Activity: A Saving for a Better Future of the World
Arthiyana Patiwael
Nowadays our young learners grow up
and develop in such world where living is based upon aggression and violence in
the language. They learn violence from school and when they go home, cartoon
books, movies, the news media, family and societal relationship strengthen it.
If we expect our children to value diversity, be aware of and appreciate
differences, and respect to their human rights and the rights of others, a
certain kind of systematic efforts to introduce and expose them to the
differences and humanity values need to be carried out. This paper, then,
proposes a TEYL classroom activity integrating language activity and the effort
to develop young learners' humanity awareness, designed especially for students
of the 4th grade in Elementary School and up. By integrating
language activities and humanity issues, we will be able to provide students
with language, intellectual and social skills at the same time.
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Patiwael,
A.
(2004, February). The inclusion of humanity awareness issues in TEYL
classroom activity: A saving for a better future of the world. Paper
presented at the national conference on Teaching English to Young Learners: Why
and How,
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