Requirements For Teaching Young Learners

by Monique Barb - Teachers need to work with their pupils individually and in groups developing relationships. They need to plan a range of activities for a given time period, and flexible enough to move on to the next exercise when they see their pupils getting bored. Teachers should be able to choose an appropriate topic and derive from it a set of learning tasks which pursue subject...

Teaching English To Young Learners is Both a Difficult and Enjoyable Experience

by Monique Barb - Teaching English to young learners is both a difficult and enjoyable experience. It is difficult for you as a teacher, because you always have to find new and interesting methods and approaches in order to stir the learners’ interest; but in the same time it is enjoyable because you are given the chance of becoming child again, of seeing the world through a child’s eyes, when...

The Role of Informal Interaction in Teaching English to Young Learners

by Monique Barb - By informal interaction is meant the exchange of ideas, using spoken English, between teacher and learners and among the learners themselves. BilIows (1961) was one of the first language teachers to stress the fact that a language has no life in itself. 'It must live,’ he wrote,’in the mouth of the teacher in relation to the activity and situation of the classroom. It is a...