A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF ICE BREAKING ACTIVITY IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR CHILDREN

Abstract

Ice-breaking activity is very important in learning process to freshen the atmosphere of learning, to eliminate boredom and drowsiness that can be faced by students. In order to achieve good result, to provoke desire of study and to avoid any uncomfortable feelings of children in learning English, the teacher should create good condition and use interesting way by using ice-breakers as pacemaker. The research entitled, “A Descriptive Study of the ice breaking Activity in teaching English for Children”, is intended to know the process of ice breaking activity in teaching English for children. The aim of the research is to describe the process of ice breaking activity in teaching English for children employed by two English teachers. In conducting the research, the writer applied descriptive method. He describes the situations that happen in the research site. For the instrument, he administers questionnaire followed by interview and observation to find the process of ice breaking activity. The research was conducted to the first, second and third grade students of SD Kesatuan Bogor as the population.