The objectives of learning a foreign language have not been clearly analyzed, perhaps due to the fact that there has not been adequate teacher training and background information about the Multiple intelligences and the different learning styles that an individual possesses. Moreover, when it has to deal with the teaching-learning process of English to young children where, according to Sharon Begley, ´´A baby´s brain is a work in progress, trillions of neurons waiting to be wired into a mind. The experiences of childhood help the brain´s circuits for music and math, language and emotion.´´ In other words the more a yound child hears a foreign language, the better his/her ability for language will be.
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The teaching learning process of english to children from the age of three to ten year olds
2. THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS OF
ENGLISH TO CHILDREN FROM THE AGE OF
THREE TO TEN
DATE: July 5th – July 9th, 2.004 FACILITATOR: Lcda. Clara Clavijo
TIME: 15H00-18H00
GENERAL OBJECTIVES:- Establish the importance to teach English to Children at
an early age.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: - State the need to teach English to Children as
early as possible.
- Develop appropriate skills according to
the children´s ages.
- Indicate the Teaching-Learning process in a sequential
order according to the scholar stage of the child.
- Analyze the average characteristics of a child which
are relevant for language teaching.
3. GOALS: 90% of the participants will be able to determine that
young Children possess a greater capacity to acquire a new language.
CONTENTS:
Session # 1: General view of the young language learner.
- Pre-test
-Theory of the Multiple intelligences.
-Definition of the Multiple Intelligences.
-What are the eight intelligences?
-Integration of the MI theory in T.E.F.L.
-Introduction of the process: The language mind.
Session # 2: First Stage (Pre-school stage)
-Children from the age of three to four.
-The importance of learning English at this stage.
-Methodology applied at this stage.
-Class management and atmosphere.
4. Session # 3: Second Stage
-Five to seven year old children.
-The communicative approach
-Methodology: Stories in pictures/
story telling/ expanding vocab.,
through reading/language learning
games, jazz chants.
Session # 4: Third Stage
-Eight to ten year old children.
-Developing guesswork strategies.
-Creative thinking riddles.
-Effective interviewing in the communicative
classroom.
5. Session # 5: Classroom management
-Lesson planning
-Strategies: Motivational strategies
The importance of review
Feedback and correction
-Syllabus: Making and using simple teaching aids
-Classroom tests.
MATERIALS: -Handouts -Computer
-In focus -overhead projector
-taperecorder -tranparencies
-grids -props