AN INQUIRY OF TEACHER’S PEDAGOGICALCOMPETENCEIN UTILIZING INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA TO TEACH ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS

ABSTRACT SINGGI SAHID KURNIAWAN. An Inquiry of Teacher’s Pedagogical Competence in Utilizing Instructional Media to Teach English to Young Learners. (Supervised by Baso Jabu and Kisman Salija) As a liaison in transferring knowledge, learning media is something that is inevitable in the learning process, especially in its use with young learners. For this reason, the pedagogical competence of teachers in the use of learning media is the basis for conducting this research. The objectives of the research were (1) to represent how good the teachers followed the steps in teaching English to young learners, (2) to analyze and describe teacher competencies in utilizing instructional media in teaching English to young learners. The researcher applied qualitative methods in this research. Data obtained from two instruments, those are observation and guideline interviews. The sample consists of 2 English teacher from Makassar Islamic Elementary School Al-Azhar 34 and was taken by using convenience sampling technique. The results showed that (1) the teacher was skilled in teaching English to young learners with the following steps of teaching English for young learners. From the 6 steps studied, the only problem occur is the using of L1. Mostly, the teachers still have limited chance in practicing a full English class which can be seen from the results of observations made during the study, (2) the teacher have good pedagogical skills in terms of the use of learning media. It can be seen from the 5 criteria compiled in the instrument, the five of them were fulfilled well by the two teachers Keywords: Teaching, Pedagogical, Young Learners, Instructional Medi