Teaching Young Learners (Isabel)
During the last class that I have about teaching young learners between 5 and 12, I could remember when I tought my students during 4 years ago, I had troubles keeping my students engaged during the lesson because as a teacher we have to be very quikly with them,we have to find different strategies to teach them and young learner classroom should be visual, hand activities and strong community help young students learn, is a litle diffficult but no imposible.
As a teacher should have goals with the young learners like gaing a better underdtanding, provide
examples for implementing some strategies in the language classroom, during the class our teacher said that Teacher need to know how children learn and how they make sense of the world also Teacher need to know about language, language learning and keeping students on task as a teacher.
I think that videos help to engage students in their learning because young learners can see different pictures character in which they are going to assimilate better the language, using videos is helpful because learners can produce the language in a better way and
improve their pronounciation. They could be adapted according to the learners age, a teacher has to be creative in the classroom using videos as a stepping stone to fun and communicative activities. It is necessary to challenge young learners to listen when dealing with features of pronunciation. Moreover, we can find videos to provide a good source of authentic listening materials for the practice of pronunciation and we can use for accordingly because English is a global language is necessary to learn It in order to communicate with other people around the world.
As a teacher should have goals with the young learners like gaing a better underdtanding, provide
examples for implementing some strategies in the language classroom, during the class our teacher said that Teacher need to know how children learn and how they make sense of the world also Teacher need to know about language, language learning and keeping students on task as a teacher.
I think that videos help to engage students in their learning because young learners can see different pictures character in which they are going to assimilate better the language, using videos is helpful because learners can produce the language in a better way and
improve their pronounciation. They could be adapted according to the learners age, a teacher has to be creative in the classroom using videos as a stepping stone to fun and communicative activities. It is necessary to challenge young learners to listen when dealing with features of pronunciation. Moreover, we can find videos to provide a good source of authentic listening materials for the practice of pronunciation and we can use for accordingly because English is a global language is necessary to learn It in order to communicate with other people around the world.
Hi Isabel,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you finally got this post published on the blog!
You make a good point about the use of videos for young learners, and the idea of using videos as a source of authentic learning for this group of students. I definitely think that at this age we could use many of the same sources and materials (apps, videos, books, etc.) that we would use for native speakers (of this same age).