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Teaching English to young and very young learners - Coggle Diagram
Teaching English to young and very young learners
young learners (ages 5–12)
very young learners
Piaget's stages of development
the pre-operational (until 7, approximately)
the concrete operational
the sensory-motor (from birth to two years old)
the formal operational
Vygotsky's social turn
context and interaction matter
The optimal age to learn a foreign language
Variables
Affect
Aptitude
Learning styles and strategies
No consensus
The critical period (after brain lateralization)
Importance of context and authenticity
exposed to the L2 in both natural and educational settings.
daily life and the media, academic, aesthetic-cultural communication
segregation, mother tongue maintenance, submersion and immersion