Course

Semester 4

English for Young Learners is designed to introduce students to fundamental concept of teaching English to young learners. It elaborates some numbers of important issues in the area of second language learning, especially for children. It discusses myths and misconceptions on children’s characteristics in learning together with its implications for classroom teachers, the developmental characteristics of children learning a language, some appropriate methods and techniques of teaching young learners, especially learning or activity centers that create opportunities for both first and second language development. It also digs out some strategies that can be used to evaluate student’s progress in the English classroom. At the end of the course students are assigned to observe certain primary school and come up with any ideas to help the school, e.g. producing teaching media, suggesting teaching techniques.

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