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TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO YOUNG LEARNERS - Coggle Diagram
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO YOUNG LEARNERS
There are many factors that influence children´s maturity
Environment
Sex
Culture
The expectations of their parents
The approach and type of actvity will be influenced by our knowledge of their circunstances, attitudes and interest
The way children learn a foreign language obviously depends of their developmental stage
Younger children have the advantage of being great imitators, and are capable of carrying out the activities that the teacher has prepared for them
English classes have to be motivating
The activities should be:
The task should be within their abilities: it needs to be achievable but at the same time sufficienly stimulating for them to feel satisfied with this work
Simple enough for the children to understand what is expected of them
Largely orally based-indeed
Written activities should be used sparingly with younger children
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Older children should continue to be on language as a vehicle of communication and not on the grammar
The teacher give tasks to children in which they discover for themselves simple grammatical rules
The kinds of activities that well are games and songs with actions, physical response activities that involve colouring, cutting, repetitive stories, etc
If an activity is enjoyable , it will be memorable; the language involved will stick and the children will have a sense achievement which will develop motivation for further learning.