The Use of Letterland Strategies in Teaching English Vocabulary to Young Learners
This research discussed about the use of Letterland strategies in teaching English vocabulary to young learners. Descriptive qualitative design was applied in this research and the data gathered from the sentences of four teachers in Nursery class at a Singapore Pre School, Medan. Observation and interview were the techniques of collecting data. Then, the techniques in analyzing the data were condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. Based on the data analysis, it was found that the sounds trick strategy (64.49% the character names trick (33.68% the action trick (1.57% and the capital letter trick (0.26% were four of the Letterland strategies used by the teachers. From the findings, it was concluded that Letterland strategies were good for young learners in learning English vocabulary because it provided some fun activities that contained of multi sensory based learning which they were able to see, hear, do, and touch it.