CHILDREN-FRIENDLY ENGLISH LEARNING DESIGN BASED ON FOLKLORES

Abstract

This paper aims at designing English Learning Design for elementary school based on the local folklores. Why folklores? Because English for elementary school in Indonesia is categorized as a local content and the local content should include the value of the local knowledge of their respective regions. The local value can be adapted from the local wisdom and folklores can be said as one of the local values. By integrating folklores in the English for elementary schools, the students learn two things simultaneously. First, they learn friendly English story based, and second, they learn their own culture. It is said friendly English since story is one of teaching media that is closed to children. This way of learning design covers four skills of learning language, that is, Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.