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Teaching English to Young Learners

Teaching English to Young Learners. Fiona Copland School of Languages and Social Sciences. Audience. Aims. Provide an overview of the units in this module Describe a number of contexts in which children learn English (Unit 1) Challenge the belief that ‘younger is better’ (Unit 1)

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Teaching English to Young Learners

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  1. Teaching English to Young Learners Fiona Copland School of Languages and Social Sciences

  2. Audience

  3. Aims • Provide an overview of the units in this module • Describe a number of contexts in which children learn English (Unit 1) • Challenge the belief that ‘younger is better’ (Unit 1) • Point forward to research agendas in the teaching of English to young learners.

  4. Module Units • Contexts and issues in teaching young learners • Children as language learners • Second language learning in the classroom • Approaches to early L2 teaching • Resources and activities for young learners • Literacy, reading and writing • Language in the young learner classroom • Interaction in the young learner classroom • Course and syllabus design • Assessment and evaluation.

  5. What is a young learner?

  6. Contexts 1 Teaching English to newly arrived immigrant children in primary school classroom in the USA, Australia or UK. b

  7. Contexts 2 TEFL contexts.

  8. Contexts 3 English as a second language

  9. Contexts 4 Very young children learn English

  10. Is younger better? Critical period hypothesis = CPH (Lenneberg, 1967).

  11. Is younger better? What factors influence learning? • Age • Hours of input • Cognitive development • Educational environment • Status of English ‘the variety of contexts and variables make it hard to claim that age is one of the independent variables’ (Nikolov, 2000:22)

  12. Interactionism ‘Language develops as a result of the complex interplay between the uniquely human characteristics of the child and the environment in which the child develops.’ Lightbown and Spada, 1999:22

  13. Research in TYL • Cameron,L.2001.TeachingLanguagestoYoungLearners.C.U.P. • MoonJ,2005.ChildrenLearningEnglishMacmillanHeinemann,Thirdedition • WilliamsM.R.L.andBurdenR.L.1997.PsychologyforLanguageTeachersCUP. • Moon,J.andNikolov,M.editors.2000.ResearchintoTeachingEnglishtoYoungLearners.UniversityPressPécs. • Rixon,S.editor.1999.YoungLearnersofEnglish:SomeResearchPerspectives.LongmaninassociationwithTheBritishCouncil.

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