IMPLEMENTATION OF KID ANIMATIONS ON YOUTUBE AS LEARNING MEDIA IN TEACHING VOCABULARY TO YOUNG LEARNERS

Abstract

This study mainly discussed teachers’ experiences related to the implementation and problems while using kid animations on YouTube as one of the learning media in the context of teaching vocabulary to young learners. Indeed, kid animations are suitable to be implemented by teachers in this advanced era because of the technology’s development. On the one hand, teaching vocabulary to young learners belongs to a significant matter since vocabulary itself is the main foundation for a person who wants to learn a language, especially for young learners who have an audio-visual learning style. So, this study was designed as a qualitative research by using 2 instruments, which were: observation, and open-ended interviews with 2 English 5^th grade teachers in one of islamic school in Sumenep, East Java, Indonesia. The result of this study revealed that the 3 steps of the implementation of this learning media starting from: Pre-implementing, while-implementing, and post-implementing could be utilized so well in the class. Furthermore, the study showed that the teachers have solutive ways when they face several obstacles in using this learning media. Therefore, the researcher claimed that this study will help and inform the readers when they want to apply kid animations on YouTube as attractive learning media in teaching vocabulary to young learners.