Zusammenfassung der Ressource
TOPIC 3: Pedagogical Principles
of Teaching Songs and Poetry to
Young Learners
- Pedagogy: the art of teaching
- Principles: ideas, truths or beliefs used as a base for reasoning or action.
- Pedagogy Principles = a rich set of practical, instructional experiences and can
be used to deal with new practical problems.
- Pedagogical Principles of KSSR Language Arts
- back to basics
- learning is fun, meaningful and purposeful
- teaching is learner-centered
- integration of ICT
- character-building
- assessment for learning
- Culture
- Get to know parts of a foreign culture.
- We are living in multi-cultural country.
- Children curious about everything new.
- Natural, real and make sense to the child.
- Active discovery and construction of
meaning and lead to the use of
language as a vehicle.
- Feel closer to the foreign language and its language.
- Content
- Based on the syllabus.
- Consider the status of the vocabulary in the lesson.
- Make sure the meaning is clear.
- Encourage children to notice the form.
- Provide a variety of opportunities for recognizing,
practicing, and using the songs and poems.
- Interest
- Extend and develop pupils' skills according to their
personal interests and abilities.
- Need to have the motivation, develop imagination, stimulate
curiosity, draw on personal experience, encourage participation
and create a desire to continue learning.
- Values
- Relate learning to personal experiences
- Make connections between their understanding of
lesson themes and their own personal experiences.
- Promotes 'ownership' of learning.
- Inculcate good moral values indirectly through poems and songs.
- Age
- Appropriate for the age group and the level of the language.
- Too complicated and difficult stories may have
discouraging affects on children.
- Use simple words and materials that are easy to explain about.
- Needs to be related to their lives and fantasy as
children in their ages have their own imagination.
- Resources
- Include different poets, genres, topics and themes.
- Cover multiple time periods (historical, past, present, future)
- Include literature with a collection of unforgettable characters.
- Proficiency Level
- Use speech appropriate to children's proficiency level
- Make it comprehensible.
- Simplifying the sentence you use, using repetition and speaking at a slower pace.