1. Children are already very good in
interpreting meaning without necessarily understanding the individual word.
2. Children already have great skill in
using limited language creativity.
3. Children frequently
learn indirectly rather than directly.
4. Children
take good pleasure in finding and creating fun in what they do.
5. Children
have a ready imagination, children words are full of imagination and fantasy,
and it is more than simply matter of enjoyment.
The characteristic of young learners mentioned by Clark (1990: 6-8):
a. Children
are developing conceptually: they develop their way of thinking from the
concrete to the abstract thing.
b. Children
have no real linguistics, different from the adult learners that already have
certain purpose in learning language, for instances, to have a better job,
children rarely have such needs in learning a foreign language. They learn
subject what school provide for them.
c. Children
are still developing; they are developing common skill such as turn talking and
the use of body language.
d. Young
children very egocentric, they tend to resolve around themselves.
e. Children
get bored easily. Children have no choice to attend school. The lack of the
choice means that class activities need to be fun interesting and exciting as
possible by setting up the interesting activities.