Meaningful and Interesting Learning Process: Accomodating Comprehensible Input for Teaching English to Young Learners in the 4.0 Industrial Age

Meaningful and Interesting Learning Process: Accomodating Comprehensible Input for Teaching English to Young Learners in the 4.0 Industrial Age Dewi Cahyaningrum1, Sandi Naftali2, Cica Nur Hayati3 Universitas Sebelas Maret Article Information ________________ Article History Submitted: Desember 2019 Approved: Januari 2019 Published: March 2020 ________________


Abstract
In general, the purpose of teaching young learners is to develop students' physical aspects, intelligence, social-emotions, personality, language and communicative competence. Addressing the challenge of the 4.0 Industrial age, teachers of young learners need to know well the characteristics of millennial generation and must be adaptive to accommodate the growth of technology to support learning process. Teachers need to support young learners' witn learning process held in a meaningful and interesting way stimulating the ability of young learners to think critically and creatively. Besides, learning process accommodating rich content of media and opportunities for interaction/ discussion with teachers and peers prepare both, high achievers and low achievers for lifelong learning. In simple words, meaningful and interesting learning in this study covers some principles as follows; (1) accommodating comprehensible input; (2) accommodating active -collaborative learning, and (3) adopting and adapting online learning sites for young learners. Through this conditioning learning atmosphere, students' affective filters becomes lower and their learning process becomes more effective.

INTRODUCTION
In many countries, children are learning English at younger ages. Young learners are in the golden age. Early studies of second or foreign language learning argued that golden age was a "critical period" (Lenneberg, 1967;Penfield & Roberts, 1959), prior to puberty in which children could acquire native-like proficiency in a foreign language. Besides, parents' belief that English skills provide their children with a better education and better employment opportunities following the growing demand for English have led to an increase in the number of EYL programs (Enever & Moon, 2009;Gimenez, 2009 Teachers have several roles, regarding to their responsibility to build meaningful interactions within language learning which is adaptable to Industry 4.0, namely as controller, director, manager, facilitator, and resource. Reffering to meaningful interactions, teachers need to provide learning process that is more than just memorizing content and facts without following meaningful learning experience.
Students' learning process should be held in a meaningful and attractive way stimulating them to think critically, creatively, innovatively, and develop selfreliance as well as a collaborative attitude. Moreover, this learning process ideally meet all students' physical and psychological condition and needs of both high achievers and low achievers. In this case, teachers should be willing to know the characteristics of millennial generation and should be more adaptive towards the technological development and communication especially on education for early childhood.
Facing the condition above, teachers need to support young learners through the delivery of engaging and motivating lessons accommodating rich content of media and opportunities for interaction/ discussion with teachers and peers.
Participation in this course will prepare children for lifelong learning. Teachers also need to learn techniques for teaching new vocabulary and grammar that encourage student participation and new ideas for teaching listening, speaking, reading and writing in a meaningful context. Besides, they also need to utilize the development of technologies effectively following linguistics and cognitive developmental stages of young learners. For example, understanding that the age of children is very close to the playtime, teachers are expected to make the learning process more enjoyable and meaningful. Teachers need to create a comfortable learning environment with attractive activities such as singing, playing music, watching cartoons, playing games, playing roles, and playing with an interesting Flash card (http://esensi.co.id/2017/04/08/bingung-cara-mengajari-anak-usia-dini-ini-diacara-yang-tepat/). Furthermore, teachers can also utilize/adapt online English learning websites to support the student learning process. In simple words, through conditioning process, learning atmosphere becomes more meaningful and attractive Dewi Cahyaningrum, Sandi Naftali, Cica Nur Hayati. Meaningful and Interesting Learning Process: Accomodating Comprehensible Input for Teaching English to Young Learners in the 4.0 Industrial Age 4 for students. In this case, whenever students' affective filter is lower, learning input developed by the environment can move the student cognition system easily.
In general, this article describes meaningful and interesting learning as a learning process (1) accomodating comprehensible input facilitating students' understanding on learning materials; (2) accommodating active-collaborative learning, and (3) Adopting and Adapting learning sites that are fun and attractive to children.

Characteristics of Early Childhood
Early childhood refers to young learners of 0-6 years old (The National Education System Law year 2003). According to Piaget (1970), early childhood has an active nature as learners and thinkers. They learn through what they see, hear, and feel when dealing with their peers or parents (Vygotsky, 1962). Furthermore, Scott and Ytreberg (1990) suggest that young learners are easily attracted to new things. They will continue to feel curious and use their logical reasoning to understand something new. Early childhood are in a "critical" or "sensitive period" (Oyama, 1976), prior to puberty in which children could acquire native-like proficiency in a foreign language. In this case, there is a condition supporting and facilitating students' learning. Read (2003) suggests that younger is better when learning is natural, contextualized and part of a real event, interesting and enjoyable, has a purpose for the child, builds on things the child knows but also challenges the child, multisensory, active and experiential, memorable, and offered in a relaxed and warm learning atmosphere.

Teacher pedagogical competence in the Educational Era 4.0
Competent teachers are expected to be able to build and develop a good and effective learning process. Teachers ideally have appropriate training in teaching young learners, in teaching English, and in teaching through English.
According to Nunan (1999: 3), programs to teach English to young learners need to be "carefully planned, adequately supported and resourced, and closely monitored and evaluated. Following these principles, teachers are expected to be (2) accommodating activecollaborative learning, and (3) adopting and adapting learning sites that are fun and attractive for children. The teacher is also expected to be able to carry out his role as a facilitator who helps students to be able to master the competencies needed in this 4.0 era.

Childhood
According to Sujiono (2007: 59), one of learning principles for young learners is that children act as active learners who build their own knowledge through what their sensors and senses feel. They prefer to learn through concrete objects that they can see and touch. Even when children are learning a language, existing learning must be able to challenge and motivate children to find out for themselves what is in their minds (Risaldy, 2014). Children will feel happy if they are involved in the learning process. Language learning activities and processes must be agreed to each child's abilities and needs. In this case, when children feel involved in the learning process they like and in accordance with their conditions, children will feel their learning process is more meaningful.
Furthermore, interesting learning in this study is a learning process that is able to present comprehensible input. According to Krashen (1981), comprehensible input is the process of language acquisition in second language learners (second language acquisition) that occurs when there is an input that can be understood (comprehensible) obtained through speech and reading that can be understood it's meaning. To understand this, early childhood must be able to master their first grammar or langauge. In fact, these inputs are not only limited to being understood, but it is better for children to be stimulated and motivated to learn languages.
In the theory of comprehensible input, Krashen (1981) also mentions that an understandable input is related to language acquisition in which there are Dewi Cahyaningrum, Sandi Naftali, Cica Nur Hayati. Meaningful and Interesting Learning Process: Accomodating Comprehensible Input for Teaching English to Young Learners in the 4.0 Industrial Age 6 materials whose level is higher than the cognitive level of early childhood (i + 1).
The role of the teacher here is very important to guide and assist children in understanding language correctly because the teaching material is made in such a way that it exceeds the ability of the children. In fact, the results of previous studies conducted by Gleitman (1977) revealed that input for children is not only limited to increasing the level of material difficulty one level above the child's cognitive level, but there are also i + 2, i + 3 and others. This can happen if there is full support from the teacher and the optimal use of teaching media.

This research was conducted at a learning group governed by LAZIZ of
Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta in 2019. This study is aimed to explain the result of optimizing comprehensible input for teaching English to young learners in the 4.0 Industrial age. This research is a case study in which the researcher gained an in-depth understanding of the subject's perspective using case study method.
The sources of the data are events and documents while the technique for collecting data are document analysis, interview, and non-participant observation. The technique used in analyzing the data is qualitative data analysis. Miles and Huberman (1994: 10-11) proposes the steps in analyzing the data in qualitative data analysis as the following: (1) Data reduction, (2) Data display, (3) Conclusion drawing and verification.

Data reduction
This step is a process of election, a centration of attention to the simplification, abstracting, and transformation of "crude" data arising from the documentwritten notes on the field. Data reduction/process-transformation continues after field research, until the complete final report is composed. This is a form of analysis that sharpen sorts, focuses, removes, and organizes data in such a way that final conclusions can be withdrawn and verified.

Presentation of Data (display data)
The presentation of data on qualitative research should be clear and concise to facilitate the understanding of problems in the research. Data Display helps researchers understand what's happening and further analyse or take action

Withdrawal of conclusions and verification (conclusion drawing and verification)
This measures the process of discovering meaning, pattern, explanation, configuration or also causal flow about a phenomenon. In addition, in the verification, the meanings arising from the data should be tested for its validity/truthfulness, its firminess, and the match, which is the merupakañ validity. If it is not so, the possession is an interesting cita-citá on something that happens and that is unclear of its truth and usefulness.

Image 1. Components of Data Analysis: Interactive Model
RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Accomodating Comprehensible Input Facilitating Learning English for
Young Learners Krashen (2002) states acquisition and learning hypothesis as two strategies for developing second language competence. Adopting this theory, in the context of learning English as a foreign language, researchers apply these two strategies in the process of learning English for early childhood. By creating a learning environment that is closer to natural, English is used to communicate without focusing on the rules of language but rather aimed at mastering communicative functions (acquisition strategies). Furthermore, through learning strategies that are focused on understanding the language rules, students will be able to master the language rules well in line with the learning process that is supportive too. In this To support the implementation of the two strategies above and to make input as expected input, the teacher needs to condition the input as a comprehensible input that is understandable for students. In this case Krashen (2002: 102-103), states that the second language is obtained by understanding messages (understanding messages) or by receiving input that can be understood (comprehensible input).
Krashen states comprehensible input as an input that is a level above the previous ability of learners. This input that is heard or read is formulated as i + 1. The i is interpreted as the ability or competence of students and +1 is interpreted one level above it. If the input is understandable and adequate, the language rules will automatically be integrated in it.
To accommodate this comprehensible input and the strategy of acquisition and learning in the learning process, teachers can apply "learning by doing" strategy. Teachers can accommodate simulation or demonstration so that children actively participate in class. Children are invited to go round playing. Teachers can also utilize the power with cooperative learning to support a natural learning atmosphere in the classroom. These strategies are suited with children' level of intelligence, ability, and interest so that children find the process fun for them.
Teachers can also accomodate technology that is very much loved by children.
Teachers can use internet on developing teaching materials and media with more variety in a short time. The teacher can adopt or adapt the materials available at online English learning sites according to students' needs and conditions.

English for Young Learners
Active -collaborative learning is considered able to provide sufficient language exposure and attract young learners' attention to a naturally real practice that is appropriate to their conditions and needs. In cooperative learning model, students learn in small groups, learn from each other and learn to achieve common goals. In this case, the class atmosphere needs to be planned and built so that students get the opportunity to interact using English with each other more Dewi Cahyaningrum, Sandi Naftali, Cica Nur Hayati. Meaningful and Interesting Learning Process: Accomodating Comprehensible Input for Teaching English to Young Learners in the 4.0 Industrial Age 9 meaningfully. By utilizing English learning sites, teachers can also build children's experiences to use English such as in singing activities, playing games, or quizzes and making crafts in small groups.
Activities using video and group work are also interesting and meaningful them. They can learn to help each other to understand learning material. They can retell or even criticize the contents of the video stimulating the ability of young learners to think critically and creatively. Reteling and criticizing wjat is ini the video can be very helpful for children to become more enthusiastic in learning and strengthen a good relationship between one child with another child. Here, learning atmosphere also becomes exciting and enjoyable. In this case, it is suggested for teachers to present an atmosphere of collaboration among learners in the classroom, especially for young learners. Although basically, children have a strong selfcentred nature at this age, teachers can still try and utilize collaborative-based learning to help students strengthen the socialist character between children.
According to Shuel (1986) in Biggs and Moore (1993), what students do is very important in the teaching and learning process. Harmer (2002) also states that if students (children) are fully involved in learning, they will have high ability to learn, have high potential in being creative, and have a high commitment to things that are in accordance with their interests.

Accomodating Technology (fun and attractive learning sites) in Language
Learning for Young Learners and students in learning English, the teacher's role in managing the material and the media remains as the main key. To be able to produce inputs that can be easily understood by students and support the implementation of learning and acquisition strategies, teachers need to manage learning materials and media in accordance with the conditions and needs of students. As stated by Krashen (1981) [19], comprehensible input is an input that is a level above the previous ability of learners. This input that is heard or read is formulated as i + 1. The i is interpreted as the ability or competence of students and +1 is interpreted one level above it.
Considering this, teachers need to utilize learning resources such as learning sites that have been described above to support students' learning process. In addition, the role of the teacher to guide and assist children to understand language correctly is absolutely needed because the teaching material is made in such a way that it exceeds the level of the child's ability. Through this conditioning effort, learning atmosphere becomes more meaningful and interesting. In this case, whenever students' affective filter is lower, learning input developed by the environment can move the student cognition system easily. More than that, children are also encouraged and motivated to learn more languages

CONCLUSION
Answering the challenges of the 4.0 Industrial age, teachers of young learners are expected to be more creative and adaptive in developing and implementing learning plans and utilizing technology to support young learners' learning process. There are three principles for interesting and meaningful learning in this study. The first is accomodating comprehensible input. Besides, accommodating activecollaborative learning is also important here. In the process of learning, the teacher presents learning by doing activities. The teacher can also utilize the power of cooperative learning to support the natural learning atmosphere in the classroom. The teacher can also use the internet in developing material. The teacher may adopt or adapt the existing materials on online English learning sites according to the needs and conditions of students. In simple words, through this conditioning effort, learning atmosphere becomes more meaningful and interesting. In this case, whenever students' affective filter is lower, learning input developed by the environment can move the student cognition system easily. More than that, children are also more encouraged and motivated to learn many more. Introducing young learners with cooperative and collaborative learning and learning accommodated with technology at younger ages also help children to establish lifelong learning to grow and survive even to play a better role in the society.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We thank the head of LAZIZ UNS for support.