Teachers’ Techniques in Teaching English to Young Learners at TK Bambini School of Makassar

The objectives of this research were to find out the teachers’ techniques in teaching, the problem in teaching and the best teaching techniques used by the teacher in teaching English to young learners at TK Bambini School of Makassar. It applied descriptive qualitative research. The subject of the research were three kindergarten teachers of TK Bambini School of Makassar . The data were obtained through interview and observation. The data were analyzed based on procedure of data analysis that consisted of the data collection, the data reduction, the data display, and conclusion: drawing/verification. The findings showed that (1) the teachers’ techniques in teaching English to young learners were singing a song, games, presentation practice and production, drilling, demonstration, story telling, reading aloud, and dictation , (2) the teachers’ problems in applying the certain teaching techniques were learners lacked of self confidence, shouted and moved too much when singing, lost controlled when playing the games, misunderstood about the games rules, less focused on teachers’ presentation, did not know in spelling the words, got difficulties in understanding the teacher explanation and practicing the teacher instructions, did not understand the story, did not know to read and write the word or sentences and teachers were difficult to explain the lesson and failed in their science experiment, (3) the best teaching techniques implemented by the teachers were playing games, demonstration and presentation practice and production. Keywords: Teachers’ techniques, Teaching English, Young learne