Teaching Young Learners, Teens, and Adults

Hi everyone! It looks like most of you have figured out how to post and comment. There is one thing that I would like to mention, and it should be obvious as graduate students and teachers yourself, but it is absolutely PROHIBITED to copy and paste from other people’s work (internet, articles, etc) and pass it as your own. It’s easy to tell when it was not written by you. In addition, your work is supposed to be reflective, which means it has to relate to your own, unique experience, and you will not be able to find that on the Internet. So please remember to be ethical in your work. Thank you.

YOUNG LEARNERS The implication of knowing how to teach English to Young learners has represented to appreciate many points of views and face theoretical issues, involvements and also established ways of teaching that deals with the English teaching- learning process.   Based on the previous face to face class I could realize that there are factors which showed us strengths or weakness in order to teach this special population.   However, we as teachers must familiarize with strengths and weaknesses, and take advantages about strengths. According to my own experience I thought that teaching young learner is a “piece of cake” activity but this believe have changed my misconceptions about it because I felt frustrated once learners began to play and walking around the classroom and also I didn’t have their time and attention. My next thoughts were some questions: “What sparks their interest for learning? What do they like to do best? What excites them and makes them ...

Talking about young learners I would like to say that young learners are enthusiastic students that want to show understanding to the teacher even if they are wrong or wright. However, they show much interest in learning a foreign language when the class is very interested, funny or difficult. At the same time, they can be easy demotivated when the classes are not well performed. That’s why teachers should adapt materials that are not too long. It must be funny colourful to catch young learner’s attention. Describing the three groups: Young learners (children ages 5-12), Teenagers (ages 13-18+) and Adults (professionals, college students). There are many differences between them. For example, children from age 5-12 To Brunet the essences of creativity out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think. In a relation to this thinking and according to me young children learn in a natural way like playing, discovering, imitating without taking care t...

YOUNG LEARNERS REFLEXTION      In the first class we reviewed the three stages of teaching the first stage is the young learners in this stage the ages are from 5 to 12 years old, the second stage is about teenagers from 13 to 18+ years old and the last stage is about adults like professionals, college students but we concentrated just in young learner stage.      Some years ago I worked with young learners (5 to 9 years old) for me this stage is very hard to the teachers, is very demanding because the students need more attention and with these learners as teachers we need more activities to catch their attention to understand the second language in a better way. As you know an English teacher need to domain the subject to teach and need be very creative and also to don´t have a boring class, because they lose the attention easily.      In the young learners stage the students learn in a better way using technology like video g...

   Teach young learner is not easy as some people believe. An educator who is going to teach young learners definitely has to be well prepared, If he or she wants to have success in class. In other  words, teach  a young learner is not a simple task. Besides, there are a lot of misconceptions about young learners. For  example, in  my case I did not know who young students are, I mean the correct scale: ·          7-12 years old ·          very young (3-6 years old) ·          Early primary (7-9 years old) ·          Old/late primary (10-12 years old Others: ·          2-5 years old ·          6-8 years old     I believed that Young learner’s age  was  just 7 to 12 years. O ther...

Hi everyone, It sounds like you are all doing well, and I hope your work is coming along fine. I decided to put together this mini-tutorial for those of you wondering how to post your work to the blog. First, in order to sign in you have to go to the parent site: blogger.com. Sign in with your gmail account. Once you get to the blog, you will need to make a new post (I think in Spanish it is "Entrada"). See the image below. Click on the "New post" button and then you will be taken to a page where you can upload (or directly write) your work. See the image below: The part circled in green is where you will copy and paste (or directly write). The icons circled in blue will help you format your text. Above the icons is a space to write your title. Please be sure to include your name so we can easily and clearly see who wrote it (your name will also appear at the bottom of the post as the author of the post). Once you are happy with your work, you will pre...

A quick reminder of the things we will be sharing on this blog during our virtual and online work each week: Write a blog post reflecting on the previous face-to-face class Choose one app for young learners and evaluate it by creating a video Choose one article that addresses a concern or question you have about teaching English to young learners. Post the link to the article and then write a post analyzing and evaluating the article. Don't forget to log into Skype for your Sunday meeting with me (the time you signed up for) The above assignments should be completed by midnight on the Sunday following our Saturday face-to-face class . During the rest of the week, you should do the following:              1. Read your classmates’ articles and comment.              2. Watch classmates’ app videos and comment.              3. Read and reflect on your classmates' comments. B...

Welcome to the blog for your course, Teaching Special Populations: Young Learners, Teens, and Adults! This will be the place for your "outsourced memory" - a place where you can access information shared and seen in class, as well as extra information that may come up during the week. The blog will also be home to the virtual component of the course, where you and your classmates will be uploading the work you do online, and where we can view and comment on each others' work before our face-to-face sessions. I hope you make great use of the blog as we go on this journey together!