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Category: Teaching Young Learners

How young is too young to learn a Foreign Language?
Teaching Young Learners

How young is too young to learn a Foreign Language?

ELT NewsMarch 20, 2020

  Quite often in a monolingual family we are confronted with the dilemma of what is the appropriate age for…

Teaching Young Learners: The age of Innocence
Teaching Young Learners

Teaching Young Learners: The age of Innocence

ELT NewsMarch 27, 2019

By Nancy Tasiopoulou, English Teacher, Doukas Primary School   Teaching young learners is a unique experience, as it brings together…

Unleashing the potential of limericks:  Humorous poetry for the EFL young learners
Teaching Young Learners

Unleashing the potential of limericks: Humorous poetry for the EFL young learners

ELT NewsMarch 27, 2019

By Evangelia Vassilakou   Definition and general characteristics of limericks   Limericks are one of the most favourite poetic forms…

A class full of Young Learners: Teacher’s  expectations and focal points in the EFL/ESL classroom
Teaching Young Learners

A class full of Young Learners: Teacher’s expectations and focal points in the EFL/ESL classroom

ELT NewsMarch 27, 2019

Characteristics of Young Learners      By Marina Siskou The conventional feeling towards the definition of “Young Learners” is that it is…

Teaching Young Learners
Teaching Young Learners

Teaching Young Learners

ELT NewsMarch 27, 2019

It takes a special person to teach English as a foreign language. It takes an even more special person to…

Teaching Young Children: An overview by Aris Mazarakis
Teaching Young Learners

Teaching Young Children: An overview by Aris Mazarakis

ELT NewsOctober 8, 2017

The debate of how we should teach Languages to young children has been raging for decades and despite the existing…

Helping young learners to speak English in class
Teaching Young Learners

Helping young learners to speak English in class

ELT NewsOctober 8, 2017

  One of the challenges that teachers face when teaching young learners is to encourage them to speak English throughout…

Gamified Activities for Young Learners
Teaching Young Learners

Gamified Activities for Young Learners

ELT NewsMarch 27, 2017

Educators are aware that one of the main aims of teaching should be to involve all students in a classroom…

Teaching Materials for Young Learners
Teaching Young Learners

Teaching Materials for Young Learners

ELT NewsFebruary 21, 2017

The enormous amount of existing materials for the teaching of English to young learners might lead us to think that…

Teaching Young Learners

Teaching Materials and Young Learners

ELT NewsDecember 14, 2016

The enormous amount of existing materials for the teaching of English to young learners might lead us to think that…

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