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perpustakaan.uns.ac.iddigilib.uns.ac.id 15attractive for them. Therefore, it is important to teach them with a technique thatinvolves some interesting activities during teaching-learning process.2. Teaching English to Young LearnersRecently, English began to be taught to elementary school even primaryschool. It is important to introduce English as early as possible in order to preparethem in continuing their study to the higher level such as junior high school andsenior high school. Scott and Ytreberg (2000: 4) propose the reasons of teachinglanguage to young learners as follows:a. Only by an early start can language mastery be assured.b. Preadolescents can learn a language without self-consciousness.c. The early start instills respect for the other people and foster tolerance.d. Appreciably more children can be eager to study a foreign language later on.e. The students who began early will be much further along in high school and incollege.As stated above, it is clearly that English should be taught earlier.Remembering that young learners have their special characteristics thatdifferentiate them with adults, it is important for teacher to choose a techniquethat suitable for their average age. Not all of the English teaching methods can beused to teach young learners. Being an English teacher also should be variously inpresenting the materials since children only have concentration in a few and easyto get bored.D. Review of Related ResearchesThere are some articles related to the use of video in foreign languageclass. The first article entitled “Learning Vocabulary Through Authentic Videoand Subtitles”. It states that subtitles can be used together with authentic video toimprove word recognition and vocabulary acquisition skills in the EFL class. Thisatmosphere provides authentic input through three different channels (written text,oral text and images) that contribute to offer a better and potentially longer-lastingmental representation of new andcommitold lexicalto useritems. The great value of video lies