Transformations in The English Classroom

Abstract

In the past few years English has been taught at the elementary school level. However, many schools in Surabaya have introduced English in their curriculum at the pre-school level. In this paper the writer describes a Semi-International School in Surabaya as a model, because English is given since the play group level where students are about 2-3 years old. Thus, the focus of this paper is on be the reasons why English is taught at such an early age, constructivism as the theoretical base of the school curriculum, the English program based on topic-centered learning and activity-based approach and the facilities needed to support the whole teaching-learning process at the school.