Teaching English to Young Learners ❤
Age and Acquisition
What is the optimal age?
Earlier = Better?
Generalizations and beliefes
According to Nunan (2016, p.72) learn a new language is related to the needs of the learners.
AUTHENTICITY
Simulate activities from learner's real life
Use L1 to improve their ideas
AFFECT
Students practice with L1 before use English
Connections between real life and performances
Emotional
Motivation
Desire to interact with members of the target language
MORE ENGLISH
Only oral communicative activity
Students produced a lot of language orally
Use of daily situations
I like to use daily situations with my little students! I always ask them about them outside the classroom.
English as a "special tool" to know the world.