The Implementation Of Immersion Approach In Bilingualism Classes At Elementary Students (Descriptive Study at SDUA Taman Harapan Curup)

Abstract

Abstract

Indonesia is a country that has various languages ​​from each region. Indonesian is the national language used by people to communicate and English is a foreign language in this country. Even though English is a foreign language, Indonesian people are aware that English is an international language that needs to be learned. The importance of English is the people are aware of the importance of learning English from a young age so the children are accustomed to using English to communicate. This paper aims to investigate the implementation of immersion approach and teaching strategies in bilingualism classes. Types of this study is a descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques used by researchers are observation, interviews, and observation ceklist. Based on the result of this study, shows the implementation of bilingual classes at SDUA Taman Harapan Curup is going well. The success of implementing bilingual classes in elementary schools is supported by teachers, students, parents, and the school in running bilingual classes. In addition, the teacher uses body language, language modification aides, repetition make perfect, connection to students live in a lesson.