Designing Appropriate Curriculum and Selecting Applicable Materials for young Learners:

Achmad Riwayadi

This paper highlights the importance of a well-set up curriculum and carefully-selected materials for the success of young learners in learning English. It elucidates our experience since 1992 in designing and developing curriculum and selecting materials for 800-1000 elementary school-age children who vary in ethnic groups and backgrounds. Appropriately designed curriculum has spotlighted new insights in teaching – learning process, granted positive inputs to teachers and allowed them to formulate some betterment for both teachers and learners. Well-chosen materials also give teachers more flexibility and choices in determining suitable methodologies and proper approaches to ameliorate learners’ achievement and at the same time make them become more motivated and enthusiastic in learning. This experience is very beneficial for both experienced and inexperienced teacher who are concerned with Teaching English to Young Learners and will certainly give new spectacles and challenges to curriculum designers and policy makers.

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Riwayadi, A. (2004, February). Designing appropriate curriculum and selecting applicable materials for young learners. Paper presented at the national conference on Teaching English to Young Learners: Why and How, Bandung, Indonesia.

 
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