Children Learning Second Languages

Author: Annamaria Pinter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230302297
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens, including home and school contexts. The scope is wide, capturing examples of studies with different age groups, different methodological approaches and different languages.

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 Second Language Learners

Author: Rhonda Oliver
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351369385
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Adopting a learner-centred approach that places an emphasis on hands-on child SL methodology, this book illustrates the practices used to teach young second language learners in different classroom contexts: (1) English-as-an-Additional-Language-or-Dialect (EAL/D) – both intensive EAL/D and EAL/D in the mainstream (2) Language-Other-Than-English (LOTE) (3) Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL), (4) Indigenous (5) Foreign-Language (FL). It will be particularly useful to undergraduate teachers to build upon the literacy unit they undertake in the first years of their course to explore factors that constitute an effective child SL classroom and, in practical terms, how to develop such a classroom. The pedagogical strategies for teaching young language learners in the six chapters are firmly guided by research-based findings, enabling not only pre-service teachers but also experienced teachers to make informed choices of how to effectively facilitate the development of the target language, empowering them to assume an active and effective role of classroom practitioners.

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.

Teaching Languages to Young Learners

Author: Lynne Cameron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521773253
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description
This book will develop readers' understanding of children are being taught a foreign language.

Ethical and Methodological Issues in Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts

Author: Annamaria Pinter
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1800411448
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
This book focuses on ethical and methodological issues faced by researchers working with young language learners in formal school contexts. It uncovers and explicitly discusses a range of ethical dilemmas, challenges and experiences that researchers have encountered and grappled with, in studies of all kinds from large scale, experimental studies to ethnographic studies focused on just a handful of children. The chapters are written by researchers working with children in different classroom contexts around the world and highlight how ethical dilemmas and tensions take on a complex form in child-focused research, requiring researchers to pay particular attention to the social and cultural norms of the different communities within which children are educated as well as their school-based experiences. The book comprises three sections, with the first part focused on involving children as active participants in research; part two on ethical challenges in multilingual contexts and part three on links between teacher education and researching children. The book includes a critical discussion of the opportunities and challenges associated with applying the UNCRC (1989) document in second language research with children which will be of use to any researcher working in this area.

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners

Author: Sue Garton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317226712
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 588

Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners celebrates the ‘coming of age’ for the field of research in primary-level English Language Teaching. With 32 chapters written by international scholars from a wide geographical area including East Africa, Mexico, the South Pacific, Japan, France, the USA and the UK, this volume draws on areas such as second language acquisition, discourse analysis, pedagogy and technology to provide: An overview of the current state of the field, identifying key areas of TEYL. Chapters on a broad range of subjects from methodology to teaching in difficult circumstances and from Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to gaming. Suggestions of ways forward, with the aim of shaping the future research agenda of TEYL in multiple international contexts. Background research and practical advice for students, teachers and researchers. With extensive guidance on further reading throughout, The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners is essential reading for those studying and researching in this area.

Teaching English to Young Learners

Author: David Nunan
Publisher: Anaheim University
ISBN: 0615401023
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description

Assessing Young Language Learners

Author: Penny McKay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521841380
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 13

Book Description
This book offers a comprehensive framework for the assessment of young language learners.

Teaching English to Young Learners

Author: Janice Bland
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472588584
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Aimed at student teachers, educators and practitioners, Teaching English Language to Young Learners outlines and explains the crucial issues, themes and scenarios relating to this area of teaching. Each chapter by a leading international scholar offers a thorough introduction to a central theme of English as a foreign language (EFL) with preteens, with clear presentation of the theoretical background and detailed references for further reading, providing access to the most recent scholarship. Exploring the essential issues critically and in-depth, including the disadvantages as well as advantages of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) with young learners, topics include: - task-based learning in the primary school; - storytelling; - drama; - technology; - vocabulary development; - intercultural understanding; - Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) scenarios; - assessment. Innovative and rapidly emerging topics are covered, such as immersion teaching, picturebooks in the EFL classroom and English with pre-primary children.