Projects with Young Learners - Primary Resource Books for Teachers

Author: Diane Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194426017
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Contains practical, tried-and-tested ideas and materials for planning, organizing, and carrying out project work with children aged between 5 and 13. Combines language and skills development with activities which challenge young learners and motivate them to be independent.

Assessing Young Learners

Author: Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780194372817
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Helps teachers to assess children's progress in English, in a way that is appropriate for young learners.

Inspiring Spaces for Young Children

Author: Jessica DeViney
Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated
ISBN: 9780876593172
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The classroom environment is an essential component for maximizing learning experiences for young children. "Inspiring Spaces for Young Children "invites teachers to enhance children's educational environment in a beautiful way by emphasizing aesthetic environmental qualities that are often overlooked in early childhood classrooms, such as nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points. Step-by-step instructions and lush photographs take educators through the process of transforming ordinary classrooms into creative, beautiful learning spaces, providing children with an environment where they can learn and grow. With easy-to-implement ideas that incorporate nature, children's artwork, and everyday classroom materials, the photographs and ideas in this book promote creativity, learning, and simple beauty.

Young Learners

Author: Sarah Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780194371957
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Based on the principle that English lessons form an integral part of a young learner's whole education, and that the teacher has a responsibility than the simple teaching of the language system. This work provides practical ideas for a variety of language practice activities, including art and crafts, drama, games, storytelling, and songs.

Young Learners - Primary Resource Books for Teachers

Author: Sarah Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194425959
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Practical ideas are provided for a wide variety of language practice activities. By Sarah Phillips. Part of the Primary Resource Books for Teachers series.

English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners

Author: Mikyung Kim Wolf
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317379039
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners provides both theoretical and empirical information about assessing the English language proficiency of young learners. Using large-scale standardized English language proficiency assessments developed for international or U.S. contexts as concrete examples, this volume illustrates rigorous processes of developing and validating assessments with considerations of young learners’ unique characteristics. In this volume, young learners are defined as school-age children from approximately 5 to 13 years old, learning English as a foreign language (EFL) or a second language (ESL). This volume also discusses innovative ways to assess young learners’ English language abilities based on empirical studies, with each chapter offering stimulating ideas for future research and development work to improve English language assessment practices with young learners. English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners is a useful resource for students, test developers, educators, and researchers in the area of language testing and assessment.

Teaching Young Language Learners

Author: Annamaria Pinter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780194422079
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
An overview of the issues surrounding the teaching of young learners combines up-to-date research with principles of classroom practice to discuss skills, vocabulary, grammar, adapting and designing materials, planning and assessment, and policy decisions.

Teaching Young Learners English

Author: Joan Kang Shin
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Pub
ISBN: 9781111771379
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
This book focuses on teaching Enghish as a foreign language to children aged 7-12.

HOT Skills

Author: Steffen Saifer
Publisher: Redleaf Press
ISBN: 1605545570
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Too many teaching and learning activities require students to use only lower-order thinking (LOT), and many of the attempts educators make to promote higher-order thinking (HOT) are misconstrued. Higher-order thinking makes teaching and learning more engaging and intentional, adds intellectual rigor to any curriculum, and aids in the development of some important life skills among young learners Even preschoolers are capable of a great deal of higher-order thinking. Infusing a play-based curriculum with activities and interactions that promote higher-order thinking creates the type of play that fosters cognitive, language, physical, and social development. It is important to start developing students’ higher-order thinking skills when they are young, and this book provides numerous strategies for doing so. Most of the activities are in the form of open-ended interactive games that can be easily modified to be responsive to variety of cultures and to meet a range of learning abilities, styles, and intelligences.

Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner

Author: Jenefer Philp
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027290563
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners. Characteristics of children’s cognitive, emotional, and social development distinguish their experiences from those of adult L2 learners, creating intriguing issues for SLA research, and also raising important practical questions regarding effective pedagogical techniques for learners of different ages. While child SLA is often typically thought of as simple (and often enjoyable and universally effortless), in other words, as “child’s play”, the complex portraits of young second language learners which emerge in the 16 papers collected in this book invite the reader to reconsider the reality for many younger learners. Chapters by internationally renowned authors together with reports by emerging researchers describe second and foreign language learning by children ranging from pre-schoolers to young adolescents, in home and school contexts, with caregivers, peers, and teachers as interlocutors.