3rd Article (Are Young Learner’s Better Learners Of Foreign Language Learning Or Adults?)

Name                    : Roro Wulandari

NPM                      : 16611074

Tittle of reading materials: Are Young Learner’s Better Learners Of Foreign Language

Learning Or Adults?

Types of Reading: Article

This article investigated a number of grammatical errors in young learners and adult learners in the elementary level. The investigation found that the most errors of adults were inter language errors and the most errors of young learners were due to over generalization.

Based on this article, we cannot say with certainty which group are better learners, because their errors are almost

identical and the number of errors made by the two groups is almost the same. The writers believe that in order to help adult learners improve their knowledge of English; teachers are advised to teach grammar deductively and with details. The instructors can benefit from a contrast method as well; it means that they can compare the structures of both languages and try to illustrate that the structures are whether identical or different. This helps the adult learners to have a better understanding of the target language. For children or young learners, the teachers should not confuse the young learners with the grammatical details. Instructors can benefit from drills; that is, having written a definite structure on the board, they can ask the students to repeat it several times. Students can be asked to compose different sentences based on the patterns given. Involving the young learners with grammatical intricacies can make the young learners to be easier to  understand the materials.