The Natural Approach
A. Introduction The introduction of English to primary school students in Indonesia began officially in 1994, though in teaching English in primary schools in most of the countries of Southeast Asia have taken place over the past few decades. This situation can leave Indonesia behind, especially in accelerating the improvement of human resources as well as the mastery of science and technology. For it, should be emphasized in the development of human resources, because English is a global communications and as a second language. To obtain a second language, we can apply the Natural Approach. The method used to make students rediscover their innate ability to acquire language, to encourage naturalistic language acquisition. The Natural Approach is a philosophy of language teaching proposed by Tracy Terrel, a teacher of Spanish in California. His philosophy which introduced in 1977, has been developed by combining it with Krashen’s theory of second la...