URGENSI PENGENALAN BAHASA INGGRIS PADA ANAK USIA DINI DIPANDANG DARI PERSPEKTIF PSIKOLINGUISTIK

Introducing English as foreign language for children constitutes an improtant thing to be donesince they were in golden age period. This can be the strating point for further languagelearning. Even it just limited to introducing English vocabulary, but it must be done carefully incorrect way. In doing this, educator must rely on the theory of language development in theirlearning process. Those are nativism, behaviorism and cognitivsm. Beside that, educator mustinternalize all the factors of language development in educating English for children. They mustconsider children intelligence, social status, motivation to communicate, condusiveenvirontment and so forth. To do this, meaningfull learning can be created.Key words: Introducing English, your learningi, psycholinguisticks