Following the Child: Pre-School EAL and Why Montessori Had the Answers
Pre-School English as an Additional Language is notorious for the inexplicable challenge it withholds for us, teachers. Yet, phonemes and…
Category: Teaching Young Learners
How To Engage Young Learners
We know that the essential ingredient that enables motivation to facilitate deep student learning is engagement. And as educators, we…
Foreign Languages and Pre-Primary Students. Are We Overdoing It?
It comes as no surprise that the demands of our ever-developing society would at some point leave its mark on…
The factor of anxiety in Young Learners’ classes
As English teachers, we’re almost always on the lookout for new and interesting ways to stimulate our language learners.…
How young is too young to learn a Foreign Language?
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
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
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
Characteristics of Young Learners By Marina Siskou The conventional feeling towards the definition of “Young Learners” is that it is…
Teaching Young Learners
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
The debate of how we should teach Languages to young children has been raging for decades and despite the existing…