MINI COURSE 2013 Teaching Young Learners. Very young learners? Young learners?
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Working with Young Language Learners
Rissa San Rizqiya, M.Pd.
STKIP Siliwangi Bandung
Indonesia
From Susan Halliwell’s book:
Teaching English in the Primary School
Children are:
Well interpreters
Creative
Indirect learners
Fun explorers
Well “imaginator”
Great talker
Children’s skills and instincts
ability to grasp meaning,
creative use of limited language resources,
capacity for indirect learning,
instinct for play and fun,
imagination,
instinct for interaction and talk
ability to grasp meaning
intonation gestureFacial
expression
Circums-
tancesaction
compreh
ension
creative use of limited language resources
apply the existing knowledge of grammar
to create a meaning they need
Don’t unring.
apply the existing knowledge of concepts to create a meaning they need
L1 and L2 Language Acquisition
work out the rules of how the language works
generalize the rules across a group of similar order
they over generalize the rules when they are not appropriate
begin to use the language correctly.
Brewster et al. (2003:20)
capacity for indirect learning
children need to use the language to communicate instead of do language exercise
instinct for play and fun
Imagination
Imagining and fantasizing is very much an
authentic part of being child
instinct for interaction and talk
Children need to talk
talking is interacting
children can learn the language mostly
because they learn to use it
Thank You