An Advocacy of English Posters Use in Kindergarten Classrooms as the Teaching Strategy

摘要

The walls in kindergarten classroom are mostly filled with colorful visual aids, whether it is a printed poster or students' drawing. This study aims to observe the suitability of the teaching strategy towards the students to what extent the colors and pictures contribute to students' learning interest. The theory from Kress and Leeuwen (1996) is used to observe the influence of semiotic resources composition in kindergarten visual aids towards students' learning. Taking some photographs are used as the method of data collection. The data was collected randomly from Pelita Jaya School Bilingual Kindergarten in Surabaya which has long been applying English as one of the subjects in the curriculum. Descriptive method is used to elaborating the data. The finding of this study perceives the advocacy of suitability by using English text for kindergarten students' learning process in their learning tools. This study is expected to contribute to the use of materials that can assist the kindergarten students' English learning process and to reveal the important of pictures as the essential media in teaching and learning process in kindergarten students.