A SUGGESTED PLAY-BASED MODEL TO TEACH ENGLISH TO THE PRESCHOOLERS FOR SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION

It has been the fundamental question of how to teach English to preschoolers effectively for preschool teachers to answer for a long time.Therefore, they are always in search of finding out new approaches and techniques to teach English to preschoolers productively for sustainable education.Educational plays have always been the topics to be discovered with multi-dimensions inasmuch as it houses such a lot of crucial issues for language teaching / learning as motivation, source of interest, unexpected result and high concentration with unconscious learning besides the other disciplines.Regarding all of these advantages, a preschool teacher cannot ignore implementing it and tries to benefit from the treasure of play in accommodating English teaching, especially while teaching very young learners.This study focuses on plays in teaching English to preschoolers as a teaching technique and invites the reader to a kind of cruise to discover what play is, how we can utilize plays in a language classroom, what criteria we have to apply to choose plays / games and which plays / games are suitable for which subjects.10 teachers attending to master program of preschool teacher education participated in the qualitative study.They were given an instrument including open-ended questions about teaching English to preschoolers via plays.72 plays were handled, analyzed and classified according to the subjects by the researcher together with the participants.The plays suggested for play-based models were classified by the field experts as 5 sub dimensions, and the reliability of the dimensions of the play categories was found to be satisfactory as % 89.Lastly, some examples of play categories are classified in teaching some subjects taken place in preschool settings.