LANGUAGE ASSESMENT FOR YOUNG LEARNERS
Abstract: Teaching English in
Asia typically dominated by
teachers and textbooks
based. Even worse,
teaching English for young
learners is generally
a matter of vocabularies memorization.
The teaching focuses
on short-term purposes, those are
testing purposes. In fact, in
teaching English, the assessment should focus on the function of
the language itself.
Those teaching styles might
be caused by
short-term purpose of
teaching English: focuses on
knowledge and memorization
for testing purposes rather than communicative competence. Therefore all
the teaching efforts focused on
answering the tests while the primary function of learning English is being
ignored. Memorizing vocabularies
is general activities in teaching
of English in primary level. Thus to
avoid such short-term
purpose learning, a
well and careful designed
assessment should put
into consideration in teaching
English for young
learners. Consequently the teaching-learning process
will focus on authentic
use of language.
For those reason, authenticity in the assessment is a
major consideration.
Author: Sri Sumarni
Journal Code: jppendidikangg100002
