Inonu University Journal of the Faculty of Education
Paginering:
Jaargang 10 (2009) nr. 1 pagina's 107-122
Jaar:
2009
Inhoud:
Teaching English to young children at preschool, which is the first grade of the systematic education, is quiteimportant in terms of developing some positive attitudes toward English. It is intended in this study toinvestigate the attitudes and interests of young children for English lessons. For this purpose, first they wereobserved using an observation form. Study was conducted at a nursery school in Bor, which serves thirty fivechildren, thirteen of whom aged 4, eleven aged 5, and eleven aged 6. The study was restricted to choosing anEnglish object related to the subjects and measuring their ability to say the English meaning of given objects.Considering that all the children had not known any English, a test wasn’t carried out beforehand. After theeducation, the data was analyzed using frequency distribution and percentage values. Consequently, based onevaluation of every child in an appropriate environment, following statistics results were obtained: 1. Saying:66.6% for the age of 4, 86.1% for the age of 5, 78.72% for the age of 6, 2. Choosing: 74.1% for the age of 4,93.5% for the age of 5, 84.4% for the age of 6.
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